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db.dropAllRoles()

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db.dropAllRoles( writeConcern )

Deletes all user-defined roles on the database where you run the method.

Warning

The db.dropAllRoles() method removes all user-defined roles from the database.

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 dropAllRolesFromDatabase 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

The db.dropAllRoles() method takes the following argument:

Field
Type
Description
writeConcern
document

Optional. The level of write concern for the operation. See Write Concern Specification.

Returns:The number of user-defined roles dropped.

This method is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

  • MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud

Note

This command is not supported in M0, M2, and M5 clusters. For more information, see Unsupported Commands.

If run on a replica set, db.dropAllRoles() is executed using "majority" write concern by default.

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

The following operations drop all user-defined roles from the products database and uses a write concern of majority.

use products
db.dropAllRoles( { w: "majority" } )

The method returns the number of roles dropped:

4
←  db.dropRole()db.getRole() →