PLAKAR-LOGIN(1)

🎀 plakar-login(1) — the girlies' guide to logging in 🎀

okay so this is plakar-login, from the General Commands Manual (section 1, if we're being fancy ✨). it's the login command. for Plakar. and it's literally gonna walk you through authenticating. let's go 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

plakar-login — authenticate to Plakar services 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plakar login [-no-spawn] [-status] [-email email | -env | -github]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so plakar login kicks off an authentication flow with the Plakar platform. that's the whole vibe ✨

here's the tea though: login is optional for most plakar commands — you're not locked out of the party. but you do need it to enable certain services, like alerting. so like, if you want your alerts, you want this. see also plakar-service(1) for the sibling drama 💅

and listen — only one authentication method per invocation, bestie. -email, -env, and -github are mutually exclusive, so pick your fighter. don't be out here specifying two of them, that's not the move 🙈

and if you specify none of them? -github is assumed. default behaviour, main character energy, no cap 👑

the options are as follows:

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -email email — sends a login link to the email address you give it. click that link and boom, plakar is authenticated. cute, right? 💌
• -env — takes the value of the PLAKAR_TOKEN environment variable and persists it into the configuration. and where do you get that token? you generate it with plakar-token-create(1), obviously 🎀
• -github — uses GitHub OAuth to authenticate. a browser will get spawned to kick off the OAuth flow — unless you pass -no-spawn, in which case no browser, no surprises 🦋
• -no-spawn — do not automatically open a browser window for authentication flows. for the girlies who do not want pop-ups appearing uninvited 😤
• -status — checks whether the user is currently logged in. that's it, that's the whole job.

🚨 real talk: -status cannot be used with any other options. none. zero. it's a solo act, periodt.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

start a login via email:

$ plakar login -email user@example.com

authenticate via GitHub (this is the default, and yes it opens a browser):

$ plakar login

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

plakar(1), plakar-logout(1), plakar-service(1)

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚 this one's from Debian, dated May 5, 2026 — so you know it's fresh 💜 now go authenticate, you got this 🍓