LXC.AUTH.IDENTITY.DELETE(1)

💅 lxc-auth-identity-delete

okay bestie, quick vibe check first: this page lives in the LXD - Command line client(1) manual, which is the whole family of lxc command docs ✨ so you already know what kind of energy we're bringing.

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🌸 NAME

lxc-auth-identity-delete — literally just Delete an identity 🗑️✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

lxc auth identity delete [:]/ [flags]

that's it, that's the shape of it — you point it at an identity and it's gone 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION

Description: Delete an identity 😌

no cap, that's the whole description. it deletes an identity. slay.

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✨ OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

these are the flags you get for free from the parent command, bestie — they come with the territory 💅

• --debug[=false] — show all the debug messages, like every single one 🔍
• --force-local[=false] — force it to use the local unix socket 🧦
• -h, --help[=false] — print help, the classic 🫶
• --project="" — override the source project 📁
• -q, --quiet[=false] — don't show progress information, shhh 🤫
• --sub-commands[=false] — use this with help or --help to view sub-commands 🌿
• -v, --verbose[=false] — show all information messages, tell me everything 👀
• --version[=false] — print version number 🏷️

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🔥 EXAMPLE

okay so here are the actual examples, and honestly they ate 👑

lxc auth identity delete oidc/jane.doe@example.com

Delete the OIDC identity with email address "jane.doe@example.com" in the default remote. 🦋

lxc auth identity delete oidc/'Jane Doe'

Delete the OIDC identity with name "Jane Doe" in the default remote — and heads up, there must be only one OIDC identity on the server with this name ⚠️ (so like, if there's two, that's a you problem bestie 😭)

lxc auth identity delete my-remote:tls/12beaccbf9e7b7445185581b70099a5962c927e85006d5883856d909fe79f976

Delete the TLS identity with certificate fingerprint "12beaccbf9e7b7445185581b70099a5962c927e85006d5883856d909fe79f976" in remote "my-remote". 🔐

lxc auth identity delete my-remote:tls/jane-doe

Delete the TLS identity with name "jane-doe" in remote "my-remote" — same deal, there must be only one TLS identity on "my-remote" with this name ⚠️

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🦋 SEE ALSO

• lxc-auth-identity(1) — go read the parent page, iykyk 💜

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🌈 HISTORY

22-Aug-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 🤖

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lowkey iconic that a robot wrote this whole thing and we just made it cute. periodt. 💅

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mwah, that's a wrap bestie 🎀 — this page came to you from Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Aug 2026, out of the LXD - Command line client(1) manual. go delete some identities responsibly, ily 🫶✨