Delete an IAM member

Delete a member from the IAM policy for a Cloud Storage bucket.

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Code sample

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation .

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  namespace 
  
 gcs 
  
 = 
  
 :: 
 google 
 :: 
 cloud 
 :: 
 storage 
 ; 
 using 
  
 :: 
 google 
 :: 
 cloud 
 :: 
 StatusOr 
 ; 
 []( 
 gcs 
 :: 
 Client 
  
 client 
 , 
  
 std 
 :: 
 string 
  
 const 
&  
 bucket_name 
 , 
  
 std 
 :: 
 string 
  
 const 
&  
 role 
 , 
  
 std 
 :: 
 string 
  
 const 
&  
 member 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 auto 
  
 policy 
  
 = 
  
 client 
 . 
 GetNativeBucketIamPolicy 
 ( 
  
 bucket_name 
 , 
  
 gcs 
 :: 
 RequestedPolicyVersion 
 ( 
 3 
 )); 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 ! 
 policy 
 ) 
  
 throw 
  
 std 
 :: 
 move 
 ( 
 policy 
 ). 
 status 
 (); 
  
 policy 
 - 
> set_version 
 ( 
 3 
 ); 
  
 std 
 :: 
 vector<google 
 :: 
 cloud 
 :: 
 storage 
 :: 
 NativeIamBinding 
>  
 updated_bindings 
 ; 
  
 for 
  
 ( 
 auto 
&  
 binding 
  
 : 
  
 policy 
 - 
> bindings 
 ()) 
  
 { 
  
 auto 
&  
 members 
  
 = 
  
 binding 
 . 
 members 
 (); 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 binding 
 . 
 role 
 () 
  
 == 
  
 role 
 && 
 ! 
 binding 
 . 
 has_condition 
 ()) 
  
 { 
  
 members 
 . 
 erase 
 ( 
 std 
 :: 
 remove 
 ( 
 members 
 . 
 begin 
 (), 
  
 members 
 . 
 end 
 (), 
  
 member 
 ), 
  
 members 
 . 
 end 
 ()); 
  
 } 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 ! 
 members 
 . 
 empty 
 ()) 
  
 { 
  
 updated_bindings 
 . 
 emplace_back 
 ( 
 std 
 :: 
 move 
 ( 
 binding 
 )); 
  
 } 
  
 } 
  
 policy 
 - 
> bindings 
 () 
  
 = 
  
 std 
 :: 
 move 
 ( 
 updated_bindings 
 ); 
  
 auto 
  
 updated 
  
 = 
  
 client 
 . 
 SetNativeBucketIamPolicy 
 ( 
 bucket_name 
 , 
  
 * 
 policy 
 ); 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 ! 
 updated 
 ) 
  
 throw 
  
 std 
 :: 
 move 
 ( 
 updated 
 ). 
 status 
 (); 
  
 std 
 :: 
 cout 
 << 
 "Updated IAM policy bucket " 
 << 
 bucket_name 
 << 
 ". The new policy is " 
 << 
 * 
 updated 
 << 
 " 
 \n 
 " 
 ; 
 } 
 

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  using 
  
  Google.Cloud.Storage.V1 
 
 ; 
 using 
  
 System 
 ; 
 using 
  
 System.Linq 
 ; 
 public 
  
 class 
  
 RemoveBucketIamMemberSample 
 { 
  
 public 
  
 void 
  
 RemoveBucketIamMember 
 ( 
  
 string 
  
 bucketName 
  
 = 
  
 "your-unique-bucket-name" 
 , 
  
 string 
  
 role 
  
 = 
  
 "roles/storage.objectViewer" 
 , 
  
 string 
  
 member 
  
 = 
  
 "serviceAccount:dev@iam.gserviceaccount.com" 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 var 
  
 storage 
  
 = 
  
  StorageClient 
 
 . 
  Create 
 
 (); 
  
 var 
  
 policy 
  
 = 
  
 storage 
 . 
 GetBucketIamPolicy 
 ( 
 bucketName 
 , 
  
 new 
  
  GetBucketIamPolicyOptions 
 
  
 { 
  
 RequestedPolicyVersion 
  
 = 
  
 3 
  
 }); 
  
 // Set the policy schema version. For more information, please refer to https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/policies#versions. 
  
 policy 
 . 
 Version 
  
 = 
  
 3 
 ; 
  
 foreach 
  
 ( 
 var 
  
 binding 
  
 in 
  
 policy 
 . 
 Bindings 
 . 
 Where 
 ( 
 c 
  
 = 
>  
 c 
 . 
 Role 
  
 == 
  
 role 
 ). 
 ToList 
 ()) 
  
 { 
  
 // Remove the role/member combo from the IAM policy. 
  
 binding 
 . 
 Members 
  
 = 
  
 binding 
 . 
 Members 
 . 
 Where 
 ( 
 m 
  
 = 
>  
 m 
  
 != 
  
 member 
 ). 
 ToList 
 (); 
  
 // Remove role if it contains no members. 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 binding 
 . 
 Members 
 . 
 Count 
  
 == 
  
 0 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 policy 
 . 
 Bindings 
 . 
 Remove 
 ( 
 binding 
 ); 
  
 } 
  
 } 
  
 // Set the modified IAM policy to be the current IAM policy. 
  
 storage 
 . 
 SetBucketIamPolicy 
 ( 
 bucketName 
 , 
  
 policy 
 ); 
  
 Console 
 . 
 WriteLine 
 ( 
 $"Removed {member} with role {role} from {bucketName}" 
 ); 
  
 } 
 } 
 

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  import 
  
 ( 
  
 "context" 
  
 "fmt" 
  
 "io" 
  
 "time" 
  
 "cloud.google.com/go/iam" 
  
 "cloud.google.com/go/storage" 
 ) 
 // removeBucketIAMMember removes the bucket IAM member. 
 func 
  
 removeBucketIAMMember 
 ( 
 w 
  
 io 
 . 
  Writer 
 
 , 
  
 bucketName 
  
 string 
 ) 
  
 error 
  
 { 
  
 // bucketName := "bucket-name" 
  
 ctx 
  
 := 
  
 context 
 . 
 Background 
 () 
  
 client 
 , 
  
 err 
  
 := 
  
 storage 
 . 
 NewClient 
 ( 
 ctx 
 ) 
  
 if 
  
 err 
  
 != 
  
 nil 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 fmt 
 . 
 Errorf 
 ( 
 "storage.NewClient: %w" 
 , 
  
 err 
 ) 
  
 } 
  
 defer 
  
 client 
 . 
 Close 
 () 
  
 ctx 
 , 
  
 cancel 
  
 := 
  
 context 
 . 
 WithTimeout 
 ( 
 ctx 
 , 
  
 time 
 . 
 Second 
 * 
 10 
 ) 
  
 defer 
  
 cancel 
 () 
  
 bucket 
  
 := 
  
 client 
 . 
  Bucket 
 
 ( 
 bucketName 
 ) 
  
 policy 
 , 
  
 err 
  
 := 
  
 bucket 
 . 
  IAM 
 
 (). 
 Policy 
 ( 
 ctx 
 ) 
  
 if 
  
 err 
  
 != 
  
 nil 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 fmt 
 . 
 Errorf 
 ( 
 "Bucket(%q).IAM().Policy: %w" 
 , 
  
 bucketName 
 , 
  
 err 
 ) 
  
 } 
  
 // Other valid prefixes are "serviceAccount:", "user:" 
  
 // See the documentation for more values. 
  
 // https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam 
  
 // member string, role iam.RoleName 
  
 identity 
  
 := 
  
 "group:cloud-logs@google.com" 
  
 var 
  
 role 
  
 iam 
 . 
  RoleName 
 
  
 = 
  
 "roles/storage.objectViewer" 
  
 policy 
 . 
  Remove 
 
 ( 
 identity 
 , 
  
 role 
 ) 
  
 if 
  
 err 
  
 := 
  
 bucket 
 . 
  IAM 
 
 (). 
 SetPolicy 
 ( 
 ctx 
 , 
  
 policy 
 ); 
  
 err 
  
 != 
  
 nil 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 fmt 
 . 
 Errorf 
 ( 
 "Bucket(%q).IAM().SetPolicy: %w" 
 , 
  
 bucketName 
 , 
  
 err 
 ) 
  
 } 
  
 // NOTE: It may be necessary to retry this operation if IAM policies are 
  
 // being modified concurrently. SetPolicy will return an error if the policy 
  
 // was modified since it was retrieved. 
  
 fmt 
 . 
 Fprintf 
 ( 
 w 
 , 
  
 "Removed %v with role %v from %v\n" 
 , 
  
 identity 
 , 
  
 role 
 , 
  
 bucketName 
 ) 
  
 return 
  
 nil 
 } 
 

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  import 
  
 com.google.cloud. Binding 
 
 ; 
 import 
  
 com.google.cloud. Policy 
 
 ; 
 import 
  
 com.google.cloud.storage. Storage 
 
 ; 
 import 
  
 com.google.cloud.storage. StorageOptions 
 
 ; 
 import 
  
 java.util.ArrayList 
 ; 
 import 
  
 java.util.List 
 ; 
 public 
  
 class 
 RemoveBucketIamMember 
  
 { 
  
 public 
  
 static 
  
 void 
  
 removeBucketIamMember 
 ( 
  String 
 
  
 projectId 
 , 
  
  String 
 
  
 bucketName 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 // The ID of your GCP project 
  
 // String projectId = "your-project-id"; 
  
 // The ID of your GCS bucket 
  
 // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name"; 
  
 // For more information please read: 
  
 // https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam 
  
  Storage 
 
  
 storage 
  
 = 
  
  StorageOptions 
 
 . 
 newBuilder 
 (). 
 setProjectId 
 ( 
 projectId 
 ). 
 build 
 (). 
 getService 
 (); 
  
  Policy 
 
  
 originalPolicy 
  
 = 
  
 storage 
 . 
  getIamPolicy 
 
 ( 
 bucketName 
 , 
  
 Storage 
 . 
 BucketSourceOption 
 . 
 requestedPolicyVersion 
 ( 
 3 
 )); 
  
  String 
 
  
 role 
  
 = 
  
 "roles/storage.objectViewer" 
 ; 
  
  String 
 
  
 member 
  
 = 
  
 "group:example@google.com" 
 ; 
  
 // getBindingsList() returns an ImmutableList and copying over to an ArrayList so it's mutable. 
  
 List<Binding> 
  
 bindings 
  
 = 
  
 new 
  
 ArrayList 
 ( 
 originalPolicy 
 . 
  getBindingsList 
 
 ()); 
  
 // Remove role-member binding without a condition. 
  
 for 
  
 ( 
 int 
  
 index 
  
 = 
  
 0 
 ; 
  
 index 
 < 
 bindings 
 . 
 size 
 (); 
  
 index 
 ++ 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
  Binding 
 
  
 binding 
  
 = 
  
 bindings 
 . 
 get 
 ( 
 index 
 ); 
  
 boolean 
  
 foundRole 
  
 = 
  
 binding 
 . 
  getRole 
 
 (). 
 equals 
 ( 
 role 
 ); 
  
 boolean 
  
 foundMember 
  
 = 
  
 binding 
 . 
  getMembers 
 
 (). 
 contains 
 ( 
 member 
 ); 
  
 boolean 
  
 bindingIsNotConditional 
  
 = 
  
 binding 
 . 
  getCondition 
 
 () 
  
 == 
  
 null 
 ; 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 foundRole 
 && 
 foundMember 
 && 
 bindingIsNotConditional 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 bindings 
 . 
 set 
 ( 
 index 
 , 
  
 binding 
 . 
  toBuilder 
 
 (). 
  removeMembers 
 
 ( 
 member 
 ). 
 build 
 ()); 
  
 break 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 } 
  
 // Update policy to remove member 
  
  Policy 
 
 . 
 Builder 
  
 updatedPolicyBuilder 
  
 = 
  
 originalPolicy 
 . 
  toBuilder 
 
 (); 
  
 updatedPolicyBuilder 
 . 
 setBindings 
 ( 
 bindings 
 ). 
 setVersion 
 ( 
 3 
 ); 
  
  Policy 
 
  
 updatedPolicy 
  
 = 
  
 storage 
 . 
  setIamPolicy 
 
 ( 
 bucketName 
 , 
  
 updatedPolicyBuilder 
 . 
 build 
 ()); 
  
 System 
 . 
 out 
 . 
 printf 
 ( 
 "Removed %s with role %s from %s\n" 
 , 
  
 member 
 , 
  
 role 
 , 
  
 bucketName 
 ); 
  
 } 
 } 
 

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  /** 
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample. 
 */ 
 // The ID of your GCS bucket 
 // const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name'; 
 // The role to revoke 
 // const roleName = 'roles/storage.objectViewer'; 
 // The members to revoke the roles from 
 // const members = [ 
 //   'user:jdoe@example.com', 
 //   'group:admins@example.com', 
 // ]; 
 // Imports the Google Cloud client library 
 const 
  
 { 
 Storage 
 } 
  
 = 
  
 require 
 ( 
 ' @google-cloud/storage 
' 
 ); 
 // Creates a client 
 const 
  
 storage 
  
 = 
  
 new 
  
 Storage 
 (); 
 async 
  
 function 
  
 removeBucketIamMember 
 () 
  
 { 
  
 // Get a reference to a Google Cloud Storage bucket 
  
 const 
  
 bucket 
  
 = 
  
 storage 
 . 
 bucket 
 ( 
 bucketName 
 ); 
  
 // For more information please read: 
  
 // https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam 
  
 const 
  
 [ 
 policy 
 ] 
  
 = 
  
 await 
  
 bucket 
 . 
  iam 
 
 . 
  getPolicy 
 
 ({ 
 requestedPolicyVersion 
 : 
  
 3 
 }); 
  
 // Finds and updates the appropriate role-member group, without a condition. 
  
 const 
  
 index 
  
 = 
  
 policy 
 . 
  bindings 
 
 . 
 findIndex 
 ( 
  
 binding 
  
 = 
>  
 binding 
 . 
 role 
  
 === 
  
 roleName 
 && 
 ! 
 binding 
 . 
  condition 
 
  
 ); 
  
 const 
  
 role 
  
 = 
  
 policy 
 . 
  bindings 
 
 [ 
 index 
 ]; 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 role 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 role 
 . 
 members 
  
 = 
  
 role 
 . 
 members 
 . 
 filter 
 ( 
  
 member 
  
 = 
>  
 members 
 . 
 indexOf 
 ( 
 member 
 ) 
  
 === 
  
 - 
 1 
  
 ); 
  
 // Updates the policy object with the new (or empty) role-member group 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 role 
 . 
 members 
 . 
 length 
  
 === 
  
 0 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 policy 
 . 
  bindings 
 
 . 
 splice 
 ( 
 index 
 , 
  
 1 
 ); 
  
 } 
  
 else 
  
 { 
  
 policy 
 . 
  bindings 
 
 . 
 index 
  
 = 
  
 role 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 // Updates the bucket's IAM policy 
  
 await 
  
 bucket 
 . 
  iam 
 
 . 
  setPolicy 
 
 ( 
 policy 
 ); 
  
 } 
  
 else 
  
 { 
  
 // No matching role-member group(s) were found 
  
 throw 
  
 new 
  
 Error 
 ( 
 'No matching role-member group(s) found.' 
 ); 
  
 } 
  
 console 
 . 
 log 
 ( 
  
 `Removed the following member(s) with role 
 ${ 
 roleName 
 } 
 from 
 ${ 
 bucketName 
 } 
 :` 
  
 ); 
  
 members 
 . 
 forEach 
 ( 
 member 
  
 = 
>  
 { 
  
 console 
 . 
 log 
 ( 
 ` 
 ${ 
 member 
 } 
 ` 
 ); 
  
 }); 
 } 
 removeBucketIamMember 
 (). 
 catch 
 ( 
 console 
 . 
 error 
 ); 
 

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient; 
 /** 
 * Removes a member / role IAM pair from a given Cloud Storage bucket. 
 * 
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket. 
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket') 
 * @param string $role The role from which the specified member should be removed. 
 *        (e.g. 'roles/storage.objectViewer') 
 * @param string $member The member to be removed from the specified role. 
 *        (e.g. 'group:example@google.com') 
 */ 
 function remove_bucket_iam_member(string $bucketName, string $role, string $member): void 
 { 
 $storage = new StorageClient(); 
 $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName); 
 $iam = $bucket->iam(); 
 $policy = $iam->policy(['requestedPolicyVersion' => 3]); 
 $policy['version'] = 3; 
 foreach ($policy['bindings'] as $i => $binding) { 
 // This example only removes member from bindings without a condition. 
 if ($binding['role'] == $role && !isset($binding['condition'])) { 
 $key = array_search($member, $binding['members']); 
 if ($key !== false) { 
 unset($binding['members'][$key]); 
 // If the last member is removed from the binding, clean up the 
 // binding. 
 if (count($binding['members']) == 0) { 
 unset($policy['bindings'][$i]); 
 // Ensure array keys are sequential, otherwise JSON encodes 
 // the array as an object, which fails when calling the API. 
 $policy['bindings'] = array_values($policy['bindings']); 
 } else { 
 // Ensure array keys are sequential, otherwise JSON encodes 
 // the array as an object, which fails when calling the API. 
 $binding['members'] = array_values($binding['members']); 
 $policy['bindings'][$i] = $binding; 
 } 
 $iam->setPolicy($policy); 
 printf('User %s removed from role %s for bucket %s' . PHP_EOL, $member, $role, $bucketName); 
 return; 
 } 
 } 
 } 
 throw new \RuntimeException('No matching role-member group(s) found.'); 
 } 
 

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  from 
  
 google.cloud 
  
 import 
  storage 
 
 def 
  
 remove_bucket_iam_member 
 ( 
 bucket_name 
 , 
 role 
 , 
 member 
 ): 
  
 """Remove member from bucket IAM Policy""" 
 # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name" 
 # role = "IAM role, e.g. roles/storage.objectViewer" 
 # member = "IAM identity, e.g. user: name@example.com" 
 storage_client 
 = 
  storage 
 
 . 
  Client 
 
 () 
 bucket 
 = 
 storage_client 
 . 
  bucket 
 
 ( 
 bucket_name 
 ) 
 policy 
 = 
 bucket 
 . 
 get_iam_policy 
 ( 
 requested_policy_version 
 = 
 3 
 ) 
 for 
 binding 
 in 
 policy 
 . 
 bindings 
 : 
 print 
 ( 
 binding 
 ) 
 if 
 binding 
 [ 
 "role" 
 ] 
 == 
 role 
 and 
 binding 
 . 
 get 
 ( 
 "condition" 
 ) 
 is 
 None 
 : 
 binding 
 [ 
 "members" 
 ] 
 . 
 discard 
 ( 
 member 
 ) 
 bucket 
 . 
 set_iam_policy 
 ( 
 policy 
 ) 
 print 
 ( 
 f 
 "Removed 
 { 
 member 
 } 
 with role 
 { 
 role 
 } 
 from 
 { 
 bucket_name 
 } 
 ." 
 ) 
 

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation .

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries .

  def 
  
 remove_bucket_iam_member 
  
 bucket_name 
 : 
  
 # The ID of your GCS bucket 
  
 # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name" 
  
 # For more information please read: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam 
  
 require 
  
 "google/cloud/storage" 
  
 storage 
  
 = 
  
 Google 
 :: 
 Cloud 
 :: 
  Storage 
 
 . 
  new 
 
  
 bucket 
  
 = 
  
 storage 
 . 
 bucket 
  
 bucket_name 
  
 role 
  
 = 
  
 "roles/storage.objectViewer" 
  
 member 
  
 = 
  
 "group:example@google.com" 
  
 bucket 
 . 
  policy 
 
  
 requested_policy_version 
 : 
  
 3 
  
 do 
  
 | 
 policy 
 | 
  
 policy 
 . 
  bindings 
 
 . 
  each 
 
  
 do 
  
 | 
 binding 
 | 
  
 if 
  
 binding 
 . 
 role 
  
 == 
  
 role 
 && 
 binding 
 . 
  condition 
 
 . 
 nil? 
  
 binding 
 . 
  members 
 
 . 
 delete 
  
 member 
  
 end 
  
 end 
  
 end 
  
 puts 
  
 "Removed 
 #{ 
 member 
 } 
 with role 
 #{ 
 role 
 } 
 from 
 #{ 
 bucket_name 
 } 
 " 
 end 
 

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