db.dropRole()

Definition

db.dropRole( rolename, writeConcern )

Deletes a user-defined role from the database on which you run the method.

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers, such as Node.js.

For the database command, see the dropRole command.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.

For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:

• mongo shell v4.4

• mongo shell v4.2

The db.dropRole() method takes the following arguments:

Parameter	Type	Description
rolename	string	The name of the user-defined role to remove from the database.
writeConcern	document	Optional. The level of write concern for the operation. See Write Concern Specification.

Behavior

Required Access

You must have the dropRole action on a database to drop a role from that database.

Example

The following operations remove the readPrices role from the products database:

use products
db.dropRole( "readPrices", { w: "majority" } )