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DeleteUserPermissionsBoundary - AWS Identity and Access Management

DeleteUserPermissionsBoundary

Deletes the permissions boundary for the specified IAM user.

Important

Deleting the permissions boundary for a user might increase its permissions by allowing the user to perform all the actions granted in its permissions policies.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

UserName

The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM user from which you want to remove the permissions boundary.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

NoSuchEntity

The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceFailure

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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