cloud-login
Summary
The cloud-login command creates a Fauna endpoint in the
configuration file based on your Fauna credentials.
fauna cloud-loginDescription
The cloud-login command prompts you for your Fauna credentials, and
if you authenticate successfully, creates a cloud endpoint in the
configuration file that you can use
to query your top-level Fauna database.
There are several prompts that help you to create endpoints that work with Region Groups, GitHub and Netlify authentication, or secrets for existing databases:
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Endpoint alias prefix: Since the introduction of Region Groups, you might need to access databases in multiple Region Groups. This prompt asks you for a prefix that can be applied to multiple Region Group endpoints.
For example, entering
cloudas the prefix (which is the default) could result in the endpoints:-
cloud: This represents the Classic Region Group that replicates your database data globally.
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cloud-us: This represents the US Region Group that replicates data within the continental United States.
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cloud-eu: This represents the EU Region Group that replicates data within Europe.
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How do you prefer to authenticate?: This prompt asks you for your authentication preference:
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Email and Password: You can use your Fauna Dashboard credentials to authenticate.
When you choose this option, you are then asked for your email address and password.
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Secret: You can use a secret for an existing database, similar to how your client applications would authenticate.
When you choose this option, you are then asked for a secret, which is the authentication bearer token acquired by creating a key or token.
You are then asked which Region Group to connect to, Classic, EU, or US. The secret is associated with a specific database in a specific region: if you choose incorrectly, a "could not connect" error appears and you are prompted for your secret again.
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Multi-factor authentication: When multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for your account in the Dashboard, the
cloud-loginfunction prompts you for the current (time-based) multi-factor authentication code — you can see the current code in your authenticator app. If you do not enter the correct code,cloud-loginexits with an error. Note that this does not occur when you authenticate using a secret. -
Default endpoint: When your
fauna-shellconfiguration file contains an existing endpoint, you are asked whether the new endpoint thatcloud-logincreates should be made the default.
Examples
The following example demonstrates the use of cloud-login, and the
prompts for email/secret and password:
fauna cloud-login
? The endpoint alias prefix (to combine with a region): cloud
? How do you prefer to authenticate? Email and Password
? Email address: docs@fauna.com
? Password: [hidden]
? Enter your multi-factor authentication code 377277
? Endpoints created. Would you like to set one of them as default? Keep 'cloud'
endpoint as default
Endpoint 'cloud' set as default endpoint.After a successful login, your
configuration file now contains a
cloud endpoint that includes the secret to access your top-level
database.
To see the configuration file, perform one of these steps:
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On Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like operating systems, run the following command in a terminal:
cat $HOME/.fauna-shell -
On Windows, run the following command in a command terminal:
type %userprofile%\.fauna-shell
The configuration file should resemble:
default=cloud
[cloud]
domain=db.fauna.com
scheme=https
secret=fnADS@PxN@2CE@n7z@kDa4_p6Z@fIBaZm@Qt@bYT
graphqlHost=graphql.fauna.com
Every secret provided by Fauna is unique, so the secret you see
when you run cloud-login is guaranteed to differ from the one
above. The secret above has been modified; it cannot be used to
access a real database.
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