Delete application privileges | Elasticsearch API documentation (8x-unreleased)

Delete application privileges Generally available; Added in 6.4.0

DELETE /_security/privilege/{application}/{name}

To use this API, you must have one of the following privileges:

The manage_security cluster privilege (or a greater privilege such as all).
The "Manage Application Privileges" global privilege for the application being referenced in the request. ##Required authorization
Cluster privileges: manage_security

application string Required

The name of the application. Application privileges are always associated with exactly one application.
name string | array[string] Required

The name of the privilege.

refresh string

If true (the default) then refresh the affected shards to make this operation visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false then do nothing with refreshes.

Values are true, false, or wait_for.

DELETE /_security/privilege/{application}/{name}

DELETE /_security/privilege/myapp/read

curl \
 --request DELETE 'http://api.example.com/_security/privilege/{application}/{name}'

Response examples (200)

A successful response from `DELETE /_security/privilege/myapp/read`. If the privilege is successfully deleted, `found` is set to `true`.

{
  "myapp": {
    "read": {
      "found" : true
    }
  }
}

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