The uv auth
CLI
uv provides a high-level interface for storing and retrieving credentials from services.
Logging in to a service
To add credentials for service, use the uv auth login
command:
This will prompt for the credentials.
The credentials can also be provided using the --username
and --password
options, or the
--token
option for services which use a __token__
or arbitrary username.
Note
We recommend providing the secret via stdin. Use -
to indicate the value should be read from
stdin, e.g., for --password
:
The same pattern can be used with --token
.
Once credentials are added, uv will use them for packaging operations that require fetching content from the given service. At this time, only HTTPS Basic authentication is supported. The credentials will not yet be used for Git requests.
Note
The credentials will not be validated, i.e., incorrect credentials will not fail.
Logging out of a service
To remove credentials, use the uv auth logout
command:
Note
The credentials will not be invalidated with the remote server, i.e., they will only be removed from local storage not rendered unusable.
Showing credentials for a service
To show the credential stored for a given URL, use the uv auth token
command:
If a username was used to log in, it will need to be provided as well, e.g.:
Configuring the storage backend
Credentials are persisted to the uv credentials store.
By default, credentials are written to a plaintext file. An encrypted system-native storage backend
can be enabled with UV_PREVIEW_FEATURES=native-auth
.