REVOKE ROLE

Synopsis

Use the REVOKE ROLE statement to revoke a role (which represents a group of permissions and the SUPERUSER status) from another role.

This statement is enabled by setting the YB-TServer flag --use_cassandra_authentication to true.

Syntax

Diagram

revoke_role

Grammar

revoke_role ::= REVOKE ROLE role_name FROM role_name

Where

• role_name is a text identifier.

Semantics

• Both roles must exist or an error will be raised.
• Permission AUTHORIZE on ALL ROLES or on the roles being used in the statement is necessary. Otherwise, an unauthorized error will be returned.
• You cannot revoke a role that hasn't been granted or an error will be raised.

Examples

ycqlsh:example> REVOKE ROLE project_y from diana;

See also

• ALTER ROLE
• DROP ROLE
• CREATE ROLE
• GRANT ROLE
• GRANT PERMISSION
• REVOKE PERMISSION