Managing Authentication

This guide covers how to manage your CLI authentication session, including logging in, checking your status, handling session expiration, and logging out.

Logging in

To authenticate your CLI with your CRE account, use the cre login command. This opens a browser window where you'll enter your credentials and complete two-factor authentication.

For detailed login instructions, see the Logging in with the CLI guide.

Session expiration

Your CLI session remains authenticated until you explicitly log out or until your session expires. When your session expires, you'll need to log in again.

If you attempt to run a command with an expired session, you'll see an error:

Error: failed to attach credentials: failed to load credentials: you are not logged in, try running cre login

To resolve this, simply run cre login again to re-authenticate.

Checking authentication status

To verify that you're logged in and view your account details, use the cre whoami command:

cre whoami

This command displays your account information:

Account details retrieved:

Email:           [email protected]
Organization ID: org_mEMRknbVURM9DWsB

If you're not logged in, you'll receive an error message prompting you to run cre login.

Logging out

To explicitly end your CLI session and remove your stored credentials, use the cre logout command:

cre logout

After logging out, you'll need to run cre login again to authenticate future CLI commands.