# How to remove a user from role mapping

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-a-user-from-role-mapping/339688>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 31, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-a-user-from-role-mapping/339688 "2023-07-31T12:08:32Z")\
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I don't believe you can use a `DELETE` call to remove a user from a role mapping.  
As I am not 100% sure on your approach the following could help you;

1. You make use of role mappings to define which roles a user gets and have multiple users listed in the mapping.

2. You add roles directy to a local user.

**In the first scenario** you can use two api calls to remove the required user: first you [get the current implementation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/security-api-get-role-mapping.html) which you mutate by removing the desired user(s) and then you [update the role mapping](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/security-api-put-role-mapping.html) with the new definition.

**In the second scenario** you follow the same approach by [retrieving](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/security-api-get-user.html) and [updating](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/security-api-put-user.html) but now on the user itself.

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