# Help with login to influxdb through cli .... 🫣

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-with-login-to-influxdb-through-cli/39301>\
**Category:** Systems\
**Tags:** influxdb\
**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-with-login-to-influxdb-through-cli/39301 "2024-11-15T19:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![big\_11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/big_11/32/16855_2.png) [@big\_11](https://community.influxdata.com/u/big_11)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-with-login-to-influxdb-through-cli/39301/1 "2024-11-15T19:00:58Z")

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I try to work with influxdb (ver 2) since days as a influx-newbie…

but i stuck at the login to the influxdb at the cli… i tried different calls as i found at the internet…but nothing worked…

as told i tried

influx -username myname -password supersecret  
as well as  
influx -user myname -password supersecret

but every try ends in a Error Message pointing to the help manual…

what goes wrong ? what did i forgot… Thank you helping a noob…

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**Author:** ![big\_11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/big_11/32/16855_2.png) [@big\_11](https://community.influxdata.com/u/big_11)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/help-with-login-to-influxdb-through-cli/39301/2 "2024-11-16T12:55:39Z")

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One question:

Shouldn’t the command ‘influx’ connect to the local influx instance (xxxxxx:8086)??

This doesn’t work as Well…

i found this entry in dpkg.log

2024-11-16 11:21:40 install influxdb-client:arm64 1.6.7~rc0-1+b13  
2024-11-16 11:21:40 status half-installed influxdb-client:arm64 1.6.7~rc0-1+b13  
2024-11-16 11:21:40 status not-installed influxdb-client:arm64