Authenticating the Lightrun CLI🔗

Before you can start debugging with Lightrun from your CLI, you must first authenticate with your Lightrun account.

Prerequisites🔗

This tutorial assumes that you have:

• A Lightrun account.
• Installed the Lightrun CLI on your local machine.

Authenticate in your CLI🔗

1. Navigate to the folder where your downloaded CLI lightrunc.jar file stored in your terminal.

2. Run the following command. java -jar lightrunc.jar login.

   You will be redirected to your browser for authentication.

   $ java -jar lightrunc.jar login
   Redirecting to your login URL: 
   https://app.lightrun.com/auth/realms/lightrun/protocol/openid-connect/auth?client_id=web_app&response_mode=fragment&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https://app.lightrun.com/device/<>
   Press Enter to open URL in browser
   
   Logged in successfully!
   

3. Alternatively, you can chose authenticate the Lightrun CLI directly in your terminal.

   java -jar lightrunc.jar login -email <jane.doe@example.com> -password <secretpassword>
   

   Change jane.doe@example.com to your account username/email and change <secretpassword> to your password.