Permanently Remove Access

Organization admins, owners, and some custom role members can remove members from an organization. Removing a member:

• Does cut off all access to the organization and its data. Removed members would need to re-join the organization in order to re-gain access.

• Does not delete their Bitwarden account in most cases. Removed members will be able to access their personally-owned vault items unless you take steps to delete their account.

• Is automatically done for organizations using directory sync if the Remove disabled users during sync option is toggled on.

To remove members from your organization:

1. In the Admin Console, navigate to the Members view.

2. Select the users you want to remove from the organization and use the  Options menu to  Remove:

   

   tip

   If your organization has a claimed domain, the Remove option will instead be Delete if the user's account email address matches your claimed domain and will outright delete the account instead of only removing access to the organization:

   

Offline devices cache a read-only copy of data, including organization items. Some clients may retain access to this read-only data for a short period of time after a member is removed. If you anticipate malicious exploitation of this, credentials the member had access to should be updated when you remove them from the organization.