Authentication

There are three ways to authenticate with the CLI:

1. Browser login (recommended)

Opens your browser to sign in with Google:

serverme login

This saves a JWT token to ~/.serverme/authtoken automatically. You only need to do this once.

2. API key

Get an API key from your dashboard, then:

serverme authtoken sm_live_your_key_here

• API keys are useful for:
• CI/CD pipelines
• Shared machines
• Programmatic access via SDKs

3. Email + password

serverme login:email --email you@example.com --password yourpassword

How it works

• serverme login saves a JWT token (expires in 24 hours, auto-refreshes)
• serverme authtoken saves an API key (never expires unless revoked)
• Both are stored at ~/.serverme/authtoken
• The CLI reads this file automatically on every command

For SDKs

Pass your API key directly:

import { ServerMe } from '@serverme/sdk';
const client = new ServerMe({ authtoken: 'sm_live_...' });

from serverme import ServerMe
client = ServerMe(authtoken="sm_live_...")