Use RemoveUserFromGroup with an Amazon SDK or CLI - Amazon Identity and Access Management
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Use RemoveUserFromGroup with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use RemoveUserFromGroup.

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.NET
Amazon SDK for .NET
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/// <summary> /// Remove a user from an IAM group. /// </summary> /// <param name="userName">The username of the user to remove.</param> /// <param name="groupName">The name of the IAM group to remove the user from.</param> /// <returns>A Boolean value indicating the success of the action.</returns> public async Task<bool> RemoveUserFromGroupAsync(string userName, string groupName) { // Remove the user from the group. var removeUserRequest = new RemoveUserFromGroupRequest() { UserName = userName, GroupName = groupName, }; var response = await _IAMService.RemoveUserFromGroupAsync(removeUserRequest); return response.HttpStatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK; }
CLI
Amazon CLI

To remove a user from an IAM group

The following remove-user-from-group command removes the user named Bob from the IAM group named Admins.

aws iam remove-user-from-group \ --user-name Bob \ --group-name Admins

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Adding and removing users in an IAM user group in the Amazon IAM User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example removes the IAM user Bob from the group Testers.

Remove-IAMUserFromGroup -GroupName Testers -UserName Bob

Example 2: This example finds any groups of which IAM user Theresa is a member, and then removes Theresa from those groups.

$groups = Get-IAMGroupForUser -UserName Theresa foreach ($group in $groups) { Remove-IAMUserFromGroup -GroupName $group.GroupName -UserName Theresa -Force }

Example 3: This example shows an alternate way of removing the IAM user Bob from the Testers group.

Get-IAMGroupForUser -UserName Bob | Remove-IAMUserFromGroup -UserName Bob -GroupName Testers -Force

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