Uninstall Teleport

This guide explains how to uninstall Teleport binaries completely.

Prerequisites

• A system with Teleport installed.

warning

These instructions only apply to non-containerized installations of Teleport.

If you are running Teleport in Kubernetes, you should uninstall the Helm chart release instead:

# Example: uninstall the Helm release named 'teleport-kube-agent' in the 'teleport' namespace
$ helm uninstall --namespace teleport teleport-kube-agent

If you are running Teleport in Docker, you should stop the Teleport Docker container:

# Example: Stop the Docker container named 'teleport'
$ docker stop teleport

Step 1/3. Stop any running Teleport processes

Linux

Instruct systemd to stop the Teleport process, and disable it from automatically starting:

$ sudo systemctl stop teleport
$ sudo systemctl disable teleport

If these systemd commands do not work, you can "kill" all the running Teleport processes instead:

$ sudo killall teleport

MacOS

Instruct launchd to stop the Teleport process, and disable it from automatically starting:

$ sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.goteleport.teleport.plist
$ sudo rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.goteleport.teleport.plist

If these commands do not work, you can "kill" all the running Teleport processes instead:

$ sudo killall teleport

Windows

There are currently no long-running Teleport processes on Windows machines.

Step 2/3. Remove Teleport binaries

Teleport Community Edition

Debian/Ubuntu Linux (DEB)

Uninstall the Teleport binary using APT:

$ sudo apt-get -y remove teleport

Uninstall the Teleport APT repo:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list

Uninstall standalone DEB package

If the commands above do not work, you may have installed Teleport using a standalone DEB package. Remove it with:

$ sudo dpkg -r teleport

Amazon Linux 2/RHEL (RPM)

Uninstall the Teleport binary using YUM:

$ sudo yum -y remove teleport
# Optional: Use DNF on newer distributions
# $ sudo dnf -y remove teleport

Uninstall the Teleport YUM repo:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/teleport.repo

Uninstall standalone RPM package

If the commands above do not work, you may have installed Teleport using a standalone RPM package. Remove it with:

$ sudo rpm -e teleport

Linux Tarball

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport binaries. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here. You can use dirname $(which teleport) to look this up automatically.

Remove the Teleport binaries from the machine:

$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tbot
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tctl
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/teleport
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tsh

MacOS

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport binaries. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here. You can use dirname $(which teleport) to look this up automatically.

Remove the Teleport binaries from the machine:

$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tbot
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tctl
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/teleport
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tsh

Uninstall MacOS client tools

If you installed the MacOS tsh-only package and/or Teleport Connect for MacOS, you can optionally remove those too:

$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/tsh.app
$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/Teleport\ Connect.app

Windows

Remove the tsh.exe binary from the machine:

$ del C:\Path\To\tsh.exe

You can uninstall Teleport Connect from the "Apps and Features" section of the Control Panel.

For reference, Teleport Connect binaries are installed to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\teleport-connect.

Enterprise

Debian/Ubuntu Linux (DEB)

Uninstall the Teleport binary using APT:

$ sudo apt-get -y remove teleport-ent
# Optional: If using the Teleport FIPS package
# $ sudo apt-get -y remove teleport-ent-fips

Uninstall the Teleport APT repo:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list

Uninstall standalone DEB package

If the commands above do not work, you may have installed Teleport using a standalone DEB package. Remove it with:

# Enterprise
$ sudo dpkg -r teleport-ent
# Enterprise FIPS
# $ sudo dpkg -r teleport-ent-fips

Amazon Linux 2/RHEL (RPM)

Uninstall the Teleport binary using YUM:

$ sudo yum -y remove teleport-ent
# Optional: Use DNF on newer distributions
# $ sudo dnf -y remove teleport-ent
# Optional: If using the Teleport FIPS package
# $ sudo yum -y remove teleport-ent-fips
# $ sudo dnf -y remove teleport-ent-fips

Uninstall the Teleport YUM repo:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/teleport.repo

Uninstall standalone RPM package

If the commands above do not work, you may have installed Teleport using a standalone RPM package. Remove it with:

# Enterprise
$ sudo rpm -e teleport-ent
# Enterprise FIPS
# $ sudo rpm -e teleport-ent-fips

Linux Tarball

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport binaries. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here. You can use dirname $(which teleport) to look this up automatically.

Remove the Teleport binaries from the machine:

$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tbot
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tctl
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/teleport
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tsh

MacOS

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport binaries. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here. You can use dirname $(which teleport) to look this up automatically.

Remove the Teleport binaries from the machine:

$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tbot
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tctl
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/teleport
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tsh

Uninstall MacOS client tools

If you installed the MacOS tsh client-only package and/or Teleport Connect for MacOS, you can optionally remove those too:

$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/tsh.app
$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/Teleport\ Connect.app

Windows

Remove the tsh.exe binary from the machine:

$ del C:\Path\To\tsh.exe

You can uninstall Teleport Connect from the "Apps and Features" section of the Control Panel.

For reference, Teleport Connect binaries are installed to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\teleport-connect.

Teleport Enterprise Cloud

Debian/Ubuntu Linux (DEB)

Uninstall the Teleport binary using APT:

$ sudo apt-get -y remove teleport-ent
# NOTE: Older Teleport Enterprise Cloud users may be running Teleport Community Edition binaries instead
# $ sudo apt-get -y remove teleport

Uninstall the Teleport APT repo:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teleport.list

Uninstall standalone DEB package

If the commands above do not work, you may have installed Teleport using a standalone DEB package. Remove it with:

$ sudo dpkg -r teleport-ent
# NOTE: Older Teleport Enterprise Cloud users may be running Teleport Community Edition binaries instead
# $ sudo dpkg -r teleport

Amazon Linux 2/RHEL (RPM)

Uninstall the Teleport binary using YUM:

$ sudo yum -y remove teleport-ent
# Optional: Use DNF on newer distributions
# $ sudo dnf -y remove teleport-ent
# NOTE: Older Teleport Enterprise Cloud users may be running Teleport Community Edition binaries instead
# $ sudo yum -y remove teleport
# $ sudo dnf -y remove teleport

Uninstall the Teleport YUM repo:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/teleport.repo

Uninstall standalone RPM package

If the commands above do not work, you may have installed Teleport using a standalone RPM package. Remove it with:

$ sudo rpm -e teleport-ent
# NOTE: Older Teleport Enterprise Cloud users may be running Teleport Community Edition binaries instead
# $ sudo rpm -e teleport

Linux Tarball

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport binaries. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here. You can use dirname $(which teleport) to look this up automatically.

Remove the Teleport binaries from the machine:

$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tbot
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tctl
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/teleport
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tsh

MacOS

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport binaries. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here. You can use dirname $(which teleport) to look this up automatically.

Remove the Teleport binaries from the machine:

$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tbot
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tctl
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/teleport
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/tsh

Uninstall MacOS client tools

If you installed the MacOS tsh client-only package and/or Teleport Connect for MacOS, you can optionally remove those too:

$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/tsh.app
$ sudo rm -rf /Applications/Teleport\ Connect.app

Windows

Remove the tsh.exe binary from the machine:

$ del C:\Path\To\tsh.exe

You can uninstall Teleport Connect from the "Apps and Features" section of the Control Panel.

For reference, Teleport Connect binaries are installed to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\teleport-connect.

Step 3/3. Remove Teleport data and configuration files

Linux

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport config files and data directory. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here.

Remove the Teleport config file:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/teleport.yaml
# Optional: Also remove the Machine ID config file, if you used it
# $ sudo rm -f /etc/tbot.yaml

Remove the Teleport data directory:

$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/teleport

Optionally, also remove the global config file and local user data directory for tsh:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/tsh.yaml
$ rm -rf ~/.tsh

MacOS

note

These are the default paths to the Teleport config files and data directory. If you have changed these from the defaults on your system, substitute those paths here.

Remove the Teleport config file:

$ sudo rm -f /etc/teleport.yaml
# Optional: Also remove the Machine ID config file, if you used it
# $ sudo rm -f /etc/tbot.yaml

Remove the Teleport data directory:

$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/teleport

Optionally, also remove:

• the global config file and local user data directory for tsh
• the local user data directory for Teleport Connect

# tsh
$ sudo rm -f /etc/tsh.yaml
$ rm -rf ~/.tsh
# Teleport Connect
$ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Teleport\ Connect

Windows

Remove the local user data directory for tsh:

$ rmdir /s /q %USERPROFILE%\.tsh

Optionally, also remove the local user data directory for Teleport Connect:

$ rmdir /s /q "%APPDATA%\Teleport Connect"

Teleport is now removed from your system.

Any Teleport services will stop appearing in your Teleport Web UI or the output of tsh ls once their last heartbeat has timed out. This usually occurs within 10-15 minutes of stopping the Teleport process.