Client: How do I delete a team??

[kelleyswords]

I started a team I would like to delete. No one is in it but me.
I am a journalist, not an IT person so........I will not understand technical answer!

[5h4d0ww0lf]

keybase team delete in terminal? Be aware that this team will be never available again.

[kelleyswords]

I don't understand how to delete. Thank you for any help!

[kelleyswords]

Terminal? The keybase.io pg? I have no idea & there is nothing to click on. What is the terminal?
Thank you!

[kelleyswords]

My husband works in IT. I will see if he knows what this means. I really appreciate you answering me. Sorry, I know nothing with this stuff. We are a political activist group & love that Keybase is encrypted.

[dabura667]

If you are using Mac OSX:

Type “Terminal” in the search bar and open the terminal app.

If you are using Windows 10 or 7:
Tap the window key (lower left of the keyboard near Ctrl) to open the start menu, then type “cmd” in search, and open the command prompt app (cmd)

Then once you have terminal or cmd open type “keybase team delete yourteamnamehere” and switch yourteamnamehere with your team name.

Hit enter

It will tell you to type a sentence.

Type the sentence exactly as it is written, and hit Enter.

Now your team will be deleted forever, and that team name is lost forever (you can never make a team with that name again)

[kelleyswords]

I really appreciate you taking the time to try to help! I had someone who has some IT knowledge assist & I typed in exactly as instructed & I got -bash: Keybase: command not found

[dabura667]

Keybase and keybase are different commands

All lower cased

keybase

[kelleyswords]

that was a typo in my email
I did both ways & got same answer

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 3:04 AM, Dabura667 [e-mail] wrote:

Keybase and keybase are different commands

All lower cased

keybase

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[dabura667]

Then you don’t have keybase installed.

If you’re on Windows and trying to use bash for windows, that won’t work. Bash for windows is a separate virtual computer within your Windows PC. You will need to open the cmd prompt and not bash.

Or are you on a Mac?

[kelleyswords]

Mac

I do have Keybase installed, been using it for couple months now.

Thank you!
So confused!

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Dabura667 [e-mail] wrote:

Then you don’t have keybase installed.

If you’re on Windows and trying to use bash for windows, that won’t work.
Bash for windows is a separate virtual computer within your Windows PC. You
will need to open the cmd prompt and not bash.

Or are you on a Mac?

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[dabura667]

Assuming you don't have anything important in the chats or filesystems of your team, you can add me, make me an owner of the team, and then I can delete it for you.

Adding someone and changing their role to Owner can be done through clicking buttons and menus.

Or you can just leave the team and ignore it. Deleting the team will nuke it anyways, maybe years from now you will want to use the same team name again... if you delete the team it will never be used again.

[dabura667]

When I say "leave the team" I mean "leave it be"

[Avamander]

This honestly indicates that the UI should provide a more clear-cut way to do this and this issue could be used to track adding that button somewhere (with proper confirmation dialogue unlike other options).

[heavenly]

@Avamander I agree, with the GUI you can only leave teams, not delete them.

[dabura667]

I think the confirmation screen should be simple question plus typing out “permanently delete myteamname and never let anyone including myself use the name again” (disable copy paste)

The simple question could be “what is the answer to the universe?”

“42”

[Jymit]

From a terminal:
$ keybase team list-memberships

keybase team delete
Error parsing command line arguments: team name argument required

NAME:
   keybase team delete - Delete a team.

USAGE:
   keybase team delete <team name>

keybase team delete testings
WARNING: This will:

(1) destroy all data in testings's chats, KBFS folders, and git repositories.
(2) prevent "testings" from being used again as a team name.

** if you are sure, please type: "nuke testings" > nuke testings
Success! Team testings deleted.