Unable to initialize firebase project using firebase-tools

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Ionut picture Ionut · Nov 23, 2015 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

I'm trying to initialize a firebase project using the command firebase init, but I get the message Error: Command requires authentication, please run firebase login. When I run firebase login, the process hangs and does not return the prompt :

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Previously I have installed the latest stable version of node.js and firebase-tools (with npm install -g firebase-tools). I'm using a Windows 8.1 x64 machine.

The content of firebase-debug.log file noes not report any error or warning:

[debug] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[debug] Command:      C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\      \AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\bin\firebase login
[debug] Platform:     win32
[debug] Node Version: v5.1.0
[debug] Time:         Mon Nov 23 2015 13:49:06 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
[debug] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[debug]

How can I debug the login command? Nomaly it should open a browser window for authentication, but this does't happen in my case.

Answer

JORDANO picture JORDANO · Oct 16, 2016

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You need to type 'firebase login --interactive' then it'll take you through the browser to a gmail account to sign into then you can execute your 'firebase init' command.

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