pkgctl-auth-login(1)

pkgctl-auth-login1

Authenticate with the gitlab instance

Usage

pkgctl auth login [OPTIONS]

Overview

Interactively authenticate with the GitLab instance.

The minimum required scopes for the token are: api, write_repository.

The GitLab API token can either be stored in a plaintext file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/devtools/gitlab.conf, or supplied via the DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN environment variable using any command (gpg, vault, password manager) by declaring a shell alias:

$ alias pkgctl='DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN="$(command to obtain token)" pkgctl'

Options

-g, --gen-access-token

Open the URL to generate a new personal access token

-h, --help

Show a help text

Homepage

<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools>

Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.

From devtools 1:1.5.3-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.