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Delete a passkey

DELETE
/v1/mfa/passkeys/{passkeyId}
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.aetherpush.com/v1/mfa/passkeys/2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0 \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "stepUp": { "type": "passkey", "response": {}, "code": "example" } }'

Deleting the account’s last passkey disables MFA only when no confirmed authenticator app remains either; in that case the remaining recovery codes are discarded and pending MFA logins are invalidated. When MFA is enabled, a fresh step-up proof of an existing factor is required.

passkeyId
required
string format: uuid
Media typeapplication/json
object
stepUp

Fresh proof of a second factor the account already holds, required to change the factor set once MFA is enabled. A stolen session cannot enrol its own factor and then strip the owner’s. Recovery codes and passwords are deliberately not accepted here: a recovery code recovers a login but never authorizes a factor change.

object
type
required
string
Allowed values: passkey totp
response

WebAuthn AuthenticationResponseJSON. Required when type is passkey.

object
key
additional properties
any
code

A current authenticator code. Required when type is totp.

string

Passkey deleted.

Media typeapplication/json
object
message
required
string
mfaEnabled
required

False when the account is left with no MFA method at all (no passkeys and no confirmed authenticator app); MFA is then disabled and the remaining recovery codes are discarded.

boolean

Example generated

{
"message": "example",
"mfaEnabled": true
}

Authentication required, or step-up is required and not satisfied (code: step_up_required).

Media typeapplication/json
Any of:
Error

Standard error envelope. code is the stable machine identifier for client branching and i18n. The wording of error is a human-readable fallback and is not part of the contract. Specialized responses keep narrower code enums where clients already branch on them.

object
error
required

Human-readable error message.

string
code
required

Stable machine code. Prefer this over matching on error. The values this API can answer with are listed in the ApiErrorCode schema of the raw document at https://api.aetherpush.com/openapi.yaml. The field stays an open string here so that a release adding a value does not invalidate this response.

string
requestId

Unique identifier for the request, also exposed as the X-Request-Id response header.

string

Example

{
"error": "The requested resource was not found.",
"code": "not_found",
"requestId": "req_abc123"
}

API keys and named access keys cannot manage passkeys; a login session is required.

Media typeapplication/json
Error

Standard error envelope. code is the stable machine identifier for client branching and i18n. The wording of error is a human-readable fallback and is not part of the contract. Specialized responses keep narrower code enums where clients already branch on them.

object
error
required

Human-readable error message.

string
code
required

Stable machine code. Prefer this over matching on error. The values this API can answer with are listed in the ApiErrorCode schema of the raw document at https://api.aetherpush.com/openapi.yaml. The field stays an open string here so that a release adding a value does not invalidate this response.

string
requestId

Unique identifier for the request, also exposed as the X-Request-Id response header.

string

Example

{
"error": "This operation requires a login session. API keys and named access keys cannot access it.",
"code": "session_required",
"requestId": "req_abc123"
}

Passkey not found.

Media typeapplication/json
Error

Standard error envelope. code is the stable machine identifier for client branching and i18n. The wording of error is a human-readable fallback and is not part of the contract. Specialized responses keep narrower code enums where clients already branch on them.

object
error
required

Human-readable error message.

string
code
required

Stable machine code. Prefer this over matching on error. The values this API can answer with are listed in the ApiErrorCode schema of the raw document at https://api.aetherpush.com/openapi.yaml. The field stays an open string here so that a release adding a value does not invalidate this response.

string
requestId

Unique identifier for the request, also exposed as the X-Request-Id response header.

string

Example

{
"error": "The requested resource was not found.",
"code": "not_found",
"requestId": "req_abc123"
}

The tenant’s per-minute management API budget is spent. Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* say when to retry. This is not a plan quota: quota 429s use the Error envelope and do not set Retry-After.

Media typeapplication/json
RateLimitError

Returned with HTTP 429 when an endpoint-specific rate limit is hit, including the per-tenant management API budget. Not the process-wide address limiter (see GlobalAddressRateLimitErrorResponse). retryAfterSeconds indicates how long the client should wait before retrying, and matches the Retry-After header when that header is set. code names the limit that fired so clients can translate without matching on error.

object
error
required
string
code
required
string
retryAfterSeconds
required
integer
>= 1
requestId
string

Example

{
"error": "Rate limit exceeded",
"code": "tenant_rate_limit_exceeded",
"retryAfterSeconds": 60
}
Retry-After
integer
>= 1

Seconds until the tenant window resets.