Removing a user and subuser

Removing a user removes both the user and subuser from the system. A subuser can also be removed separately.

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Remove a user only when wanting to remove both a subuser and subuser from the system.

When you remove a subuser, you are removing access to the Swift interface but the user remains in the system.

Remove a user and subuser from the system, by using the user rm command with the user ID.

radosgw-admin user rm --uid=USER_ID [--purge-keys] [--purge-data]

For example,

[ceph: root@host01 /]# radosgw-admin user rm --uid=johndoe --purge-data

The following command options are available:

--purge-data: The --purge-data option purges all data associated with the user ID.
--purge-keys: The --purge-keys option purges all keys associated with the user ID.

Remove a subuser from the system, by using the subuser rm command with the subuser name.

radosgw-admin subuser rm --subuser=SUBUSER_ID:swift --purge-keys

Note: Use the --purge-keys option to purge all subuser keys.

For example,

[root@host01 /]# radosgw-admin subuser rm --subuser=johndoe:swift --purge-keys