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Version: 17.x (unreleased)

Uninstall Teleport

This guide explains how to uninstall Teleport completely including binaries, configurations and data.

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​

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

Step 2/3. Remove Teleport binaries​

Follow the steps for your operating system to remove Teleport binaries.

Linux​

Follow the instructions for your Linux distribution:

Uninstall the Teleport binary using APT:

$ sudo apt-get -y remove teleport-ent

For Teleport Community Edition, use the following command:

$ 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:

# Use "teleport" instead of "teleport-ent" for Teleport Community Edition
$ sudo dpkg -r teleport-ent

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
$ sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/fdpass-teleport
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 and tctl.exe binaries from the machine:

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

If you are using Teleport's Windows auth package to provide passwordless logins for local users, you can remove it by running the setup program from an administrative command prompt:

> teleport-windows-auth-setup.exe uninstall

A reboot is necessary after the uninstall completes in order to fully remove the package.

Step 3/3. Remove Teleport data and configuration files​

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

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.