---
title: "Delete a role mapping"
method: DELETE
path: "/admin/roleMappings/{principalId}"
tags: ["Admin"]
---

# Delete a role mapping

`DELETE /admin/roleMappings/{principalId}`

Deletes a single role mapping, effectively denying access to a user/principal.

This operation can fail for the following reasons:

* No role mapping for the principalId exists (HTTP error `404`)
* A server error occurred (HTTP error `500`)

## Response `204`

Response returned when the delete was successful.

## Other responses

- `401` — Common response for all operations that can return a `401` error indicating authentication is required.
- `403` — Common response for all operations that can return a `403` error indicating the user is authenticated but not authorized.
- `404` — Common response for all operations that can return a `404` error.
- `500` — Common response for all operations that can fail with an unexpected server error.

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