Remove a default ACL from a bucket

Remove a default access control list (ACL) for a Cloud Storage bucket.

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Code sample

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& entity) {
  google::cloud::Status status =
      client.DeleteDefaultObjectAcl(bucket_name, entity);

  if (!status.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(status.message());
  std::cout << "Deleted ACL entry for " << entity << " in bucket "
            << bucket_name << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.


using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;
using System.Linq;

public class RemoveBucketDefaultOwnerSample
{
    public void RemoveBucketDefaultOwner(
        string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string userEmail = "user@iam.gserviceaccount.com")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var bucket = storage.GetBucket(bucketName, new GetBucketOptions { Projection = Projection.Full });
        if (bucket.DefaultObjectAcl == null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("No default owner to remove");
        }
        else
        {
            bucket.DefaultObjectAcl = bucket.DefaultObjectAcl.Where(acl => !(acl.Entity == $"user-{userEmail}" && acl.Role == "OWNER")).ToList();
            var updatedBucket = storage.UpdateBucket(bucket);
            Console.WriteLine($"Removed user {userEmail} from bucket {bucketName}.");
        }
    }
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// deleteDefaultBucketACL removes default ACL from a bucket.
func removeBucketDefaultOwner(bucket string, entity storage.ACLEntity) error {
	// bucket := "bucket-name"
	// entity := storage.AllUsers
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	acl := client.Bucket(bucket).DefaultObjectACL()
	if err := acl.Delete(ctx, entity); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("ACLHandle.Delete: %w", err)
	}
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.


import com.google.cloud.storage.Acl.User;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Bucket;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;

public class RemoveBucketDefaultOwner {

  public static void removeBucketDefaultOwner(String bucketName, String userEmail) {

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    // The email of the user you wish to remove as a default owner
    // String userEmail = "someuser@domain.com"

    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().build().getService();
    Bucket bucket = storage.get(bucketName);
    User userToRemove = new User(userEmail);

    boolean success = bucket.deleteDefaultAcl(userToRemove);
    if (success) {
      System.out.println("Removed user " + userEmail + " as an owner on " + bucketName);
    } else {
      System.out.println("User " + userEmail + " was not found");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// The email address of the user to remove
// const userEmail = 'user-email-to-remove';

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function removeBucketDefaultOwner() {
  // Removes the user from the access control list of the bucket. You can use
  // deleteAllUsers(), deleteDomain(), deleteProject(), deleteGroup(), and
  // deleteAllAuthenticatedUsers() to remove access for different types of entities.
  await storage.bucket(bucketName).acl.default.owners.deleteUser(userEmail);

  console.log(`Removed user ${userEmail} from bucket ${bucketName}.`);
}

removeBucketDefaultOwner().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Delete an entity from a bucket's default ACL.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $entity The entity for which to update access controls.
 *        (e.g. 'user-example@domain.com')
 */
function delete_bucket_default_acl(string $bucketName, string $entity): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);
    $acl = $bucket->defaultAcl();
    $acl->delete($entity);
    printf('Deleted %s from gs://%s default ACL' . PHP_EOL, $entity, $bucketName);
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

from google.cloud import storage


def remove_bucket_default_owner(bucket_name, user_email):
    """Removes a user from the access control list of the given bucket's
    default object access control list."""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"
    # user_email = "name@example.com"

    storage_client = storage.Client()
    bucket = storage_client.bucket(bucket_name)

    # Reload fetches the current ACL from Cloud Storage.
    bucket.acl.reload()

    # You can also use `group`, `domain`, `all_authenticated` and `all` to
    # remove access for different types of entities.
    bucket.default_object_acl.user(user_email).revoke_read()
    bucket.default_object_acl.user(user_email).revoke_write()
    bucket.default_object_acl.user(user_email).revoke_owner()
    bucket.default_object_acl.save()

    print(
        f"Removed user {user_email} from the default acl of bucket {bucket_name}."
    )

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

# The ID of your GCS bucket
# bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"
# email       = "Google Cloud Storage ACL Entity email"

require "google/cloud/storage"

storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
bucket  = storage.bucket bucket_name

bucket.default_acl.delete email

puts "Removed default ACL permissions for #{email} from #{bucket_name}"

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