apptainer(1)

💅 apptainer(1) — like, the manual page, bestie ✨

okay so real talk: this is a page from the apptainer(1) manual, and we're literally about to make key management make sense. no cap. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

apptainer-key-remove — removes a local public key from your local keyring or the global keyring. that's it. that's the whole gig. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

apptainer key remove

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so the key remove command will remove a local public key from the local or the global keyring. boom. iconic behavior honestly. 🦋

like, you point it at a key, and the key is gone from the keyring you told it to touch. main character energy for a delete operation, ngl.

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -b, --both[=false] — remove both the public and private keys. both of them. together. 💅
• -g, --global[=false] — manage global public keys. heads up tho: import/pull/remove are restricted to the root user or to an unprivileged installation only. so yeah, permissions vibe check first. 👑
• -h, --help[=false] — help for remove. the classic. our beloved. 💖
• -d, --keysdir="/builddir/.apptainer/keys" — sets the local keyring dir path. an alternative way to do this is to set the environment variable APPTAINER_KEYSDIR. two paths, same destination, iykyk. 🌈
• -p, --public[=false] — remove public keys only. 🙈
• -s, --secret[=false] — remove secret keys only. 🤫

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⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

like, literally just this:

$ apptainer key remove D87FE3AF5C1F063FCBCC9B02F812842B5EEE5934

that long hex string is the key fingerprint, and yes you do have to get it exactly right. copy-paste is your bestie here fr fr. 🍓

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• apptainer-key(1) — go read the parent page if you want the whole key saga. 💜

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra. not me being a machine-generated manpage 😭 still slaps tho.

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lowkey reminder: --global stuff is restricted to root user or unprivileged installation only, so don't come for me if it says no. 💀

okay that's the whole page, you ate that, periodt. 💅✨

this little artifact was Auto generated by spf13/cobra back in Oct 2026 — yeah, she's a cobra girlie, and she's serving the apptainer(1) manual realness. bye bestie, go remove some keys 🫶🎀