[ aws . iam ]

delete-user

Description

Deletes the specified IAM user. Unlike the Amazon Web Services Management Console, when you delete a user programmatically, you must delete the items attached to the user manually, or the deletion fails. For more information, see Deleting an IAM user . Before attempting to delete a user, remove the following items:

• Password ( DeleteLoginProfile )

• Access keys ( DeleteAccessKey )

• Signing certificate ( DeleteSigningCertificate )

• SSH public key ( DeleteSSHPublicKey )

• Git credentials ( DeleteServiceSpecificCredential )

• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) device ( DeactivateMFADevice , DeleteVirtualMFADevice )

• Inline policies ( DeleteUserPolicy )

• Attached managed policies ( DetachUserPolicy )

• Group memberships ( RemoveUserFromGroup )

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  delete-user
--user-name <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--user-name (string)

The name of the user to delete.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern ) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To delete an IAM user

The following delete-user command removes the IAM user named Bob from the current account:

aws iam delete-user --user-name Bob

For more information, see Deleting a User from Your AWS Account in the Using IAM guide.

Output

None