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Logging in from a non-graphical environment

Section titled “Logging in from a non-graphical environment”

The FlexAI CLI does not currently support directly logging in from a virtual non-graphical environment, such as a Virtual Machine (VM) instance. This is because the CLI requires a web browser to authenticate the user through their GitHub account.

There is however a workaround to this current limitation: You can install the FCS CLI on a machine equipped with a web browser, log in using the flexai auth login command and then copy the FCS CLI configuration file contents to the VM’s $HOME/.flexai/config.yaml configuration file:

  1. Log into FCS from a machine equipped with a web browser
  2. Open the $HOME/.flexai/config.yaml file on that machine
  3. Copy its contents
  4. Open the $HOME/.flexai/config.yaml file on your machine without a graphical environment
  5. Paste the contents of the first configuration file into the second one

The FlexAI CLI on the machine without a graphical environment should now be authenticated and ready to use.

Running the FlexAI CLI on a local VM or Container

Section titled “Running the FlexAI CLI on a local VM or Container”

If the environment you’re using to run the FCS CLI is a local VM or container, you can set-up your environment to use host networking to allow the FCS CLI to get the authentication callback message from your host system.

References

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