# login

Authenticate with Coder deployment

## Usage [#usage]

```console
coder login [flags] [<url>]
```

## Description [#description]

```console
By default, the session token is stored in the operating system keyring on macOS and Windows and a plain text file on Linux. Use the --use-keyring flag or CODER_USE_KEYRING environment variable to change the storage mechanism.
```

## Subcommands [#subcommands]

| Name                                                        | Purpose                         |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| [<code>token</code>](/beta-docs/reference/cli/login_token/) | Print the current session token |

## Options [#options]

### --first-user-email [#--first-user-email]

|             |                                         |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Type        | <code>string</code>                     |
| Environment | <code>$CODER\_FIRST\_USER\_EMAIL</code> |

Specifies an email address to use if creating the first user for the deployment.

### --first-user-username [#--first-user-username]

|             |                                            |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Type        | <code>string</code>                        |
| Environment | <code>$CODER\_FIRST\_USER\_USERNAME</code> |

Specifies a username to use if creating the first user for the deployment.

### --first-user-full-name [#--first-user-full-name]

|             |                                              |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| Type        | <code>string</code>                          |
| Environment | <code>$CODER\_FIRST\_USER\_FULL\_NAME</code> |

Specifies a human-readable name for the first user of the deployment.

### --first-user-password [#--first-user-password]

|             |                                            |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Type        | <code>string</code>                        |
| Environment | <code>$CODER\_FIRST\_USER\_PASSWORD</code> |

Specifies a password to use if creating the first user for the deployment.

### --first-user-trial [#--first-user-trial]

|             |                                         |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Type        | <code>bool</code>                       |
| Environment | <code>$CODER\_FIRST\_USER\_TRIAL</code> |

Specifies whether a trial license should be provisioned for the Coder deployment or not.

### --use-token-as-session [#--use-token-as-session]

|      |                   |
| ---- | ----------------- |
| Type | <code>bool</code> |

By default, the CLI will generate a new session token when logging in. This flag will instead use the provided token as the session token.