# Remove a person's second factor

POST

/v1/identity/users/{userId}/second-factor/remove

```sh
curl --request POST \
  --url https://example.com/v1/identity/users/example/second-factor/remove \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

For a lost phone, or lost recovery codes: their key is deleted, their recovery codes stop working, they’re told by email where the deployment sends it, and it’s audited. Their sessions stay: removing one gives no one access. Where the workspace requires one, they set one up at their next sign-in. `removed: false` when they had none. Tenant admins only, for anyone but themselves: an admin’s own is taken off at `POST /v1/identity/me/second-factor/remove`, with a code from it (`403 permission-denied` here). Mounted when the deployment keeps second factors (from 0.1.9).

## Authorizations

- **[bearerAuth](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/api.md#bearerauth)**

## Parameters

### Path Parameters

**userId**

required

string

\>= 1 characters

### Header Parameters

**Idempotency-Key**

string

\>= 1 characters

Caller-supplied idempotency key, scoped to the caller: the same key from someone else in the tenant is their own request (from 0.1.5). Retries with the same key return the original response byte-identical (per `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §3.1). A retry sent while the first request still runs is answered `409 idempotency-key-in-flight` with `Retry-After`, on a runtime whose store holds keys (from 0.1.5); retry after it, and you get the first request’s answer. An answer that carries a secret (a new API key or public run token, a session token, a generated signing secret) isn’t kept: a retry gets `409 idempotency-key-replay-withheld`, with the first request’s status and when it succeeded (from 0.1.5).

## Responses

### 200

Removed, or none to remove.

application/json

`false` when there was none to remove.

object

**removed**

required

boolean

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "removed": true
}
```

### 400

Malformed request body.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 401

Missing / malformed / expired / revoked bearer token.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 403

Not a tenant admin, or the caller’s own (taken off at `/v1/identity/me/second-factor/remove`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 404

No user with that id under this tenant (`identity-user-not-found`).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 409

Idempotency-Key was reused with a different body, or resource-state conflict.

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

### 500

Server error (unmapped domain code or framework crash).

application/json

object

**error**

required

object

**code**

required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see `docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md` §4.3).

string

**message**

required

string

**details**

Optional, kind-specific.

object

**_key_**

additional properties

any

**requestId**

required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via `X-Request-Id` header.

string

##### Examplegenerated

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}
```

## See also

- [`GET /v1/identity/users`: List users in the tenant](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/api/operations/identityuserslist.md)
- [`POST /v1/identity/users`: Add a person](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/api/operations/identityuserscreate.md)
- [`GET /v1/identity/users/{userId}`: Get a user by id](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/api/operations/identityusersget.md)
- [`GET /v1/identity/users/{userId}/sessions`: List active sessions for a user](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/api/operations/identityuserslistsessions.md)
- [Error code `identity-user-not-found`](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/errors.md#identity-user-not-found)
- [Every error code](https://docs.kindgi.com/reference/errors.md)