Delete Roles

You can delete a role using the Auth0 Dashboard or the Management API. Roles are used with the API Authorization Core feature set.

For role-based access control (RBAC) to work properly, you must enable it for your API using either the Dashboard or the Management API. The Authorization Core functionality is different from the Authorization Extension. For a comparison, read Authorization Core vs. Authorization Extension.

Dashboard

Go to Dashboard > User Management > Roles and click the name of the role to view.
Click Remove this Role, and confirm.

Management API

Make a DELETE call to the Delete Role endpoint. Be sure to replace ROLE_ID and MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN placeholder values with your role ID and Management API access token, respectively.

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curl --request DELETE \
  --url 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'

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var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.DELETE);
request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

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HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID")
  .header("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")
  .asString();

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var axios = require("axios").default;

var options = {
  method: 'DELETE',
  url: 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID',
  headers: {authorization: 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'}
};

axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch(function (error) {
  console.error(error);
});

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"authorization": @"Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN" };

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID"]
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                   timeoutInterval:10.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"DELETE"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                            completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                if (error) {
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                } else {
                                                    NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                }
                                            }];
[dataTask resume];

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$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

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import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

headers = { 'authorization': "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN" }

conn.request("DELETE", "/{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

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require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["authorization"] = 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

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import Foundation

let headers = ["authorization": "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "DELETE"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()

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Value	Description
`ROLE_ID`	Τhe ID of the role you want to delete.
`MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN`	Access Token for the Management API with the scope `delete:roles`.

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