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# delete_user

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.delete_user"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">delete\_user</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">name</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L26816"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Deletes an existing user.</p>

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        <p className="admonition-title">Note</p>
        <p>This method should be used for on-premise deployments only.</p>
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      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name of the user to be deleted. Must be an existing user.</p>
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              <p>Optional parameters. The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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            <div className="dt">name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Value of input parameter <span className="em">name</span>.</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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