UNunkeyed
keys

Remove key permissions

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Remove permissions from a key without affecting existing roles or other permissions.

Use this for privilege downgrades, removing temporary access, or plan changes that revoke specific capabilities. Permissions granted through roles remain unchanged.

Important: Changes take effect immediately with up to 30-second edge propagation.

Required Permissions

Your root key must have one of the following permissions:

  • api.*.update_key (to update keys in any API)
  • api.<api_id>.update_key (to update keys in a specific API)

Side Effects

Invalidates the key cache for immediate effect, and makes permission changes available for verification within 30 seconds across all regions.

post/v2/keys.removePermissions

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.unkey.com
  • URL
    https://api.unkey.com/v2/keys.removePermissions
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Request body

keyIdstring required

Specifies which key to remove permissions from using the database identifier returned from keys.createKey. Do not confuse this with the actual API key string that users include in requests.

permissionsstring[] required

Removes direct permissions from the key without affecting role-based permissions.

You can either use a permission slug, or the permission ID.

After removal, verification checks for these permissions will fail unless granted through roles.

Example request

{
  "keyId": "key_2cGKbMxRyIzhCxo1Idjz8q"
}

Response

Permissions removed successfully. Returns all permissions currently assigned to the key.

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_123"
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "perm_1234567890abcdef",
      "name": "users.read",
      "slug": "users-read",
      "description": "Allows reading user profile information and account details"
    }
  ]
}

Changes

  • 59efaed65ec4Revision changes
    • warning

      the / request property's maxLength was set to 128

    • info

      the / request property's minLength was decreased from 3 to 1

  • 43ad1ce9a152Revision changes
    • info

      the endpoint scheme security dashboard was removed from the API

    • info

      the endpoint scheme security rootKey was removed from the API