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# Delete Roles

You can delete a [role](/docs/manage-users/access-control/rbac) using the <Tooltip tip="Auth0 Dashboard: Auth0's main product to configure your services." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=Auth0+Dashboard">Auth0 Dashboard</Tooltip> or the <Tooltip tip="Auth0 Dashboard: Auth0's main product to configure your services." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=Management+API">Management API</Tooltip>. Roles are used with the API Authorization Core feature set.

For role-based access control (RBAC) to work properly, you must enable it for your API using either the Dashboard or the Management API. The Authorization Core functionality is different from the Authorization Extension. For a comparison, read [Authorization Core vs. Authorization Extension](/docs/manage-users/access-control/authorization-core-vs-authorization-extension).

## Dashboard

1. Go to [Dashboard > User Management > Roles](https://manage.auth0.com/#/roles) and click the name of the role to view.
2. Click **Remove this Role**, and confirm.

## Management API

Make a `DELETE` call to the [Delete Role endpoint](https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2#!/Roles/delete_roles_by_id). Be sure to replace `ROLE_ID` and `MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` placeholder values with your role ID and Management API <Tooltip tip="Access Token: Authorization credential, in the form of an opaque string or JWT, used to access an API." cta="View Glossary" href="/docs/glossary?term=access+token">access token</Tooltip>, respectively.

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash cURL lines theme={null}
  curl --request DELETE \
    --url 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID' \
    --header 'authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'
  ```

  ```csharp C# lines theme={null}
  var client = new RestClient("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID");
  var request = new RestRequest(Method.DELETE);
  request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN");
  IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
  ```

  ```go Go lines theme={null}
  package main

  import (
  	"fmt"
  	"net/http"
  	"io/ioutil"
  )

  func main() {

  	url := "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID"

  	req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)

  	req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")

  	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  	defer res.Body.Close()
  	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  	fmt.Println(res)
  	fmt.Println(string(body))

  }
  ```

  ```java Java lines theme={null}
  HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID")
    .header("authorization", "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN")
    .asString();
  ```

  ```javascript Node.JS lines theme={null}
  var axios = require("axios").default;

  var options = {
    method: 'DELETE',
    url: 'https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID',
    headers: {authorization: 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'}
  };

  axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
    console.log(response.data);
  }).catch(function (error) {
    console.error(error);
  });
  ```

  ```obj-c Obj-C lines theme={null}
  #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

  NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"authorization": @"Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN" };

  NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID"]
                                                         cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                     timeoutInterval:10.0];
  [request setHTTPMethod:@"DELETE"];
  [request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];

  NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
  NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                              completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                  if (error) {
                                                      NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                  } else {
                                                      NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                      NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                  }
                                              }];
  [dataTask resume];
  ```

  ```php PHP lines theme={null}
  $curl = curl_init();

  curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
      "authorization: Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN"
    ],
  ]);

  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  $err = curl_error($curl);

  curl_close($curl);

  if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
  } else {
    echo $response;
  }
  ```

  ```python Python lines theme={null}
  import http.client

  conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

  headers = { 'authorization': "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN" }

  conn.request("DELETE", "/{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID", headers=headers)

  res = conn.getresponse()
  data = res.read()

  print(data.decode("utf-8"))
  ```

  ```ruby Ruby lines theme={null}
  require 'uri'
  require 'net/http'
  require 'openssl'

  url = URI("https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID")

  http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

  request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
  request["authorization"] = 'Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN'

  response = http.request(request)
  puts response.read_body
  ```

  ```swift Swift lines theme={null}
  import Foundation

  let headers = ["authorization": "Bearer MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN"]

  let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://{yourDomain}/api/v2/roles/ROLE_ID")! as URL,
                                          cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                      timeoutInterval: 10.0)
  request.httpMethod = "DELETE"
  request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

  let session = URLSession.shared
  let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
    if (error != nil) {
      print(error)
    } else {
      let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
      print(httpResponse)
    }
  })

  dataTask.resume()
  ```
</CodeGroup>

| Value                   | Description                                                                                                           |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `ROLE_ID`               | Τhe ID of the role you want to delete.                                                                                |
| `MGMT_API_ACCESS_TOKEN` | [Access Token for the Management API](https://auth0.com/docs/api/management/v2/tokens) with the scope `delete:roles`. |

## Learn more

* [Create Roles](/docs/manage-users/access-control/configure-core-rbac/roles/create-roles)