> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://doc.lucidworks.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Delete a user

> Delete the Fusion user with the specified ID.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/5.9/fusion-api-api-docs.json delete /users/{id}
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Fusion Proxy API
  description: Manage Fusion users, roles, realms, access tokens, and API keys.
  contact:
    name: Lucidworks
    url: www.lucidworks.com
    email: support@lucidworks.com
  license:
    name: License of API
    url: https://lucidworks.com/legal/developer-license-agreement/
  version: '5.9'
servers:
  - url: https://{FUSION HOST}/api
    description: Fusion
    variables:
      FUSION HOST:
        default: FUSION_HOST
        description: Your environment host.
security: []
tags:
  - name: Realm management
    description: >-
      Endpoints for creating, configuring, and managing authentication realms
      such as LDAP, SAML, OIDC, and others.
  - name: User management
    description: >-
      Endpoints for creating, updating, deleting, and retrieving Fusion users
      and their associated metadata.
  - name: Suggestions
    description: >-
      Endpoints that provide query suggestions or autocomplete results to
      improve search experiences.
  - name: API key management
    description: >-
      Endpoints for managing API keys used to authenticate Fusion services and
      integrations.
  - name: OAuth 2.0
    description: >-
      Endpoints that support OAuth 2.0 authentication, including token issuance
      and validation.
  - name: Role management
    description: >-
      Endpoints for creating and managing user roles and their associated
      permissions within Fusion.
  - name: System status
    description: >-
      Endpoints for retrieving basic system health, configuration, and
      authentication status.
externalDocs:
  description: Lucidworks Documentation
  url: https://doc.lucidworks.com/
paths:
  /users/{id}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - User management
      summary: Delete a user
      description: Delete the Fusion user with the specified ID.
      operationId: deleteUser
      parameters:
        - name: id
          description: >-
            The user ID. Note that this is different than the username.  Use
            `GET /users` to get the list of user IDs.
          example: d8e2f424-73b4-4ef9-a789-497bc56e7975
          required: true
          in: path
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
        '403':
          description: User is not allowed to delete itself
        '404':
          description: User cannot be found

````