gcloud iam service-accounts disable

NAME
gcloud iam service-accounts disable - disable an IAM service account
SYNOPSIS
gcloud iam service-accounts disableSERVICE_ACCOUNT[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
Disable an IAM service account. After the service account is disabled,credential generation and API requests using this service account will fail.Usinggcloud iam service-accounts enable to re-enable it.

If the service account does not exist, this command returns aPERMISSION_DENIED error.

EXAMPLES
To disable a service account from your project, run:
gcloudiamservice-accountsdisablemy-iam-account@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
ServiceAccount resource - The IAM service account to disable. This represents aCloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group butcan be set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

  • provide the argumentservice_account on the command line with afully specified name;
  • provide the argument--project on the command line;
  • set the propertycore/project.

This must be specified.

SERVICE_ACCOUNT
ID of the serviceAccount or fully qualified identifier for the serviceAccount.

To set theservice_account attribute:

  • provide the argumentservice_account on the command line.
GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands:--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.

Run$gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE
This command uses theiam/v1 API. The full documentation for thisAPI can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/iam/
NOTES
These variants are also available:
gcloudalphaiamservice-accountsdisable
gcloudbetaiamservice-accountsdisable

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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.