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Command: user login

The fides user login command can be used to automatically obtain and save an access token for Fides Server.

Note: The username and password provided must be an existing, authorized user for Fides. If you have not created at least one user for Fides already, you must complete this step first. For details on creating users, see the Creating Fides Users guide.

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Usage: fides user login [options]

The command will log the user in to Fides. If no options are given, you will be prompted to provide a username and password.

The command-line flags are all optional. The following flags are available:

-u - Provide username as an option.
-p - Provide password as an option.

Credentials Storage Permalink for this section

By default, Fides will obtain an access token and save it in a plain text file in a local CLI configuration file called .fides_credentials. When you run fides user login successfully for the first time it will print the location of where .fides_credentials is written to on your computer.

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This example prompts for the username and password separately:

$ fides user login
Loaded config from: .fides/fides.toml
Username: root_user
Password:
Logged in as user: root_user
Credentials file written to: /Users/fidesuser/.fides_credentials

Example: Specifying username and password as options Permalink for this section

This example specifies the -u (username) and -p (password) options:

$ fides user login -u root_user -p Testpassword1!
Loaded config from: .fides/fides.toml
Logged in as user: root_user
Credentials file written to: /Users/fidesuser/.fides_credentials

Example: Credentials File Permalink for this section

The following is an example credentials file:

.fides_credentials

username = "root_user"
password = "Testpassword1!"
user_id = "fidesadmin"
access_token = "eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIn0..WBo3FxOFfouw4UxYnv9_4Q._GmOyi_d0xhmLUHdOStR43aL09Zzaw3OOq1k3AL_1YJaC4OENuMydbvZ16aLBKUBCVOf4rRUA1NiZY34rXDwIUhU0fkANWknhCOpmgOdG2qhUO3-zSoq_mlv2QjtnWzcBFN9q291f0-QSwg11KNSq9biwpBf81Ki53puygz2FaglpaiOcjWyA33wKu8WRizlCnGAfnFPLqqc1Vf4kSsrKDaLUIAiNF_UxbkBlJcw-2eveV6Sbr7To_ixvYHH_N9nnYH7nrfK_oJEh_GG5SLrTFw4HXMh8DTJ19JylssQ0GCJK2CkldSJP7bzveaI0jkjgTr3hH2TSe5L7dbi1AaZ4VNKKjEraGmlceCrSjoktbwGgCVPo4sf-QAnStUnJAdMTxnoUFoHV8TlXqCqdAPbkr4cTlLWyG4dJV7VI5Dc-sKYAD8DuRAPQiNt2PmIFh6RrTkb8gD1VSGNoFX-nRx0lOqK8fcDOOTn3sW8zfjrtsJboxg9nFasoHTffLjrgXCXxHZusC4RPSM6yE0j3wkxxN_6Mc9qtBOy8ducKCd_OPb0Y_pZa6a4HJipGCr0nj4lNUrL1Eqri1biSNZvB1oOoLFSGqak4iL85bbzNHytEkxAfirCux6KfmajLUp21CUF7h-QCvvZ_D51hB7kP2fbDUvrB7hDADGxEF-RoYJiPZUqm3BmytWSKPt1zXnLOyJlpupZQl7ycKUJI-DofYM9Xnw6g07t__iMzWs3rtbbNj0swt0r_-efxG57aZNHvpELfOqIFYthWHT-YNs_A9JvmAdeVL3p6ChnO9-n3So4Aw-BbYDvdBdojmjEqFzt3ZZuk4Yn6aZITWWFBbeN0ctjlyliKhBVo8vrSbSRps-jF_O5T4gIhltxqmyXe-2D5FdHLkAN_WZGCmw5mIWXKTsSaLS_GIpF38mP3KT8kcIrYMyI-8-s-3293WfBFMiiFpMzJvrezhgyRHtbQF1zRaTXZ5e-IZeVuxkwEH0cTYUArXvCuFvHWJv1EUfBPC5UBD4adkzF6AX78h3smI9XJXZ5LpqzaDw3iscl3drK-KCVLzYp6OD2wxKo1lj9KbRREME8oSSakEpLv1ouCdt0L_VNAPh3pmRX6lbhPWKUTuyE8z7hzuI75ZgEMwuK_nxp5TgZCOMaI9nJEdhJtyP5OUnDPfKSCM975o9U9qYmCd7QB_TPXhM-GyZqYH4p1lu0NL1WE7Nw8RtHUGXFpvU2AqlRo_JdDN9SdL6Md9SPgMBZUm1UnkCjaAHac1_HAnXkatB7-LL_V2v0hf8mzFjVAYUOd8kth7u5WVS4lLUrZQbobyiYnNtOjAZxsvc8XW0KabxXRLtws8VlQ1mnObgldzpcU6kZvbVdXYY8C6_ZgBn2eLnwR8ZDrBvrLB1uFsvtv-nkrBYfjcbmcOjXvYBPRJWChjr9OcgWeScus2C_7JcrudS0gE-6xmumUUfhocDx6HpZOHsMNnn9ArqzIe_5pFalSC3ct3lk5AmxljxGHj-MYgg.-srlTGxL5GsSNnWTxhgQnw"

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