Authentication | Paygent Documentation

The CLI talks to two services. Dashboard commands use a browser session; usage-tracking commands use an API key.

`paygent login`

Authenticate and store credentials for this machine.

$ paygent login

Opens a browser, signs you in, and saves the credential at mode 0600.

Flag	Description
`--token <->`	Read a session token from stdin instead of opening a browser.
`--api-key <->`	Read an API key from stdin, for usage-tracking commands.
`--no-browser`	Print the URL instead of opening it.
`--timeout <dur>`	How long to wait for the browser callback.

For CI, authenticate without a browser:

$ echo "$PAYGENT_TOKEN" | paygent login --token -

Usage-tracking commands (usage send, agent ensure, customer ensure) need an API key, never a session token:

$ echo "$PAYGENT_API_KEY" | paygent login --api-key -

Both credentials can be stored at once. Signing in with an API key does not sign you out of the dashboard.

Show the account the stored credentials belong to.

$ paygent whoami

Remove stored credentials from this machine.

$ paygent logout