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Delete Role API

Introduced 1.0

Deletes the specified role.

Endpoints

DELETE /_plugins/_security/api/roles/{role}

Example request

DELETE _plugins/_security/api/roles/test-role

Example response

{
  "status": "OK",
  "message": "'test-role' deleted."
}