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gcloud auth application-default login
[ACCOUNT
] [--no-browser
] [--client-id-file
=CLIENT_ID_FILE
] [--disable-quota-project
] [--no-launch-browser
] [--login-config
=LOGIN_CONFIG
] [--scopes
=SCOPE
,[SCOPE
,…]] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …
]
This command is useful when you are developing code that would normally use a service account but need to run the code in a local development environment where it's easier to provide user credentials. The credentials will apply to all API calls that make use of the Application Default Credentials client library. Do not set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable if you want to use the credentials generated by this command in your local development. This command tries to find a quota project from gcloud's context and write it to ADC so that Google client libraries can use it for billing and quota. Alternatively, you can use the --client-id-file
flag. In this case, the project owning the client ID will be used for billing and quota. You can create the client ID file at https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials.
This command has no effect on the user account(s) set up by the gcloud auth login
command.
Any credentials previously generated by gcloud auth application-default login
will be overwritten.
gcloud auth application-default login
If you'd like to login by passing in a file containing your own client id, run:
gcloud auth application-default login --client-id-file=clientid.json
ACCOUNT
]
--browser
--no-browser
flag.
1. To initiate authorization, enter the following command:
gcloud auth application-default login --no-browser
2. Copy the long command that begins with gcloud auth application-default login --remote-bootstrap="
.
3. Paste and run this command on the command line of a different, trusted machine that has local installations of both a web browser and the gcloud CLI tool version 372.0 or later.
4. Copy the long URL output from the machine with the web browser.
5. Paste the long URL back to the first machine under the prompt, "Enter the output of the above command", and press Enter to complete the authorization.
Enabled by default, use --no-browser
to disable.
--client-id-file
=CLIENT_ID_FILE
--disable-quota-project
Note that some cloud services may ignore this quota project and still bill the project owning the resources.
In the following situations, you may use this flag to skip setting the quota project:
--launch-browser
If you want to authorize the client libraries on a machine that doesn't have a browser and you cannot install the gcloud CLI on another machine with a browser, use the --no-launch-browser
flag. The --no-launch-browser
flag prevents the command from automatically opening a web browser.
1. To initiate authorization, enter the following command:
gcloud auth application-default login --no-launch-browser
2. Copy the long URL that begins with https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth...
3. Paste this URL into the browser of a different, trusted machine that has a web browser.
4. Copy the authorization code from the machine with the web browser.
5. Paste the authorization code back to the first machine at the prompt, "Enter authorization code", and press Enter to complete the authorization.
Enabled by default, use --no-launch-browser
to disable.
--login-config
=LOGIN_CONFIG
gcloud iam workforce-pools create-login-config
). Overrides the default auth/login_config_file
property value for this command invocation.
--scopes
=SCOPE
,[SCOPE
,…]
--access-token-file
, --account
, --billing-project
, --configuration
, --flags-file
, --flatten
, --format
, --help
, --impersonate-service-account
, --log-http
, --project
, --quiet
, --trace-token
, --user-output-enabled
, --verbosity
.
Run $ gcloud help
for details.
gcloud alpha auth application-default login
gcloud beta auth application-default login
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