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This article explains what to do if you encounter the error: "Removal will cause a policy to be left without owner, action aborted".
During the process of user removal, you might run into the following error:
Explanation of this Error
The reason for this error is that the user you are trying to remove is a Creator of one or more active policies at the organization, product, and/or project level. See screenshot below:
Currently, there is no way to reassign a policy from one Creator to another. The workaround for this is to disable old policies, create them under a new user, and then remove the old policies. To complete this action, please follow the instructions below.
Instructions
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Within your organization, navigate to the policies page and disable the policies that list the soon-to-be-deleted user as the Creator (screenshot below). For organizational policies, click “Policies” in the blue bar across the top of the UI. For product/project policies, browse to the relevant product/project page and click “Policies” near the top right of the page, under the blue bar.
2. Ask a new user to recreate the disabled policies. This way, you will have the same policies with the new user as the Creator:
3. Remove the disabled policies created by the soon-to-be-deleted user.
4. Remove the user from Admin > Users:
