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Delete softwareOathAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Delete a user's Software OATH token authentication method object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator

HTTP request

Remove a software OATH token authentication method from your own account. For a signed-in user to update their own authentication method, they must have satisfied a multi-factor authentication requirement during sign in.

Note

Calling the /me endpoint requires a signed-in user and therefore a delegated permission. Application permissions aren't supported when using the /me endpoint.

DELETE /me/authentication/softwareOathMethods/{id}

Note

Calling the /me endpoint requires a signed-in user and therefore a delegated permission. Application permissions aren't supported when using the /me endpoint.

Remove a software OATH token authentication method from another user's account.

Note

When calling the /users/{id} endpoint with {id} representing the signed-in user, the least privileged delegated permissions are UserAuthenticationMethod.Read for read operations and UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite for write operations.

DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/softwareOathMethods/{id}

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/softwareOathMethods/b172893e-893e-b172-3e89-72b13e8972b1

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content