I am trying to login to huggingface-cli using: huggingface-cli login and keep getting this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/pfss/mlde/workspaces/mlde_wsp_Rohrbach/users/ns94feza/.conda/envs/llmonk2/bin/huggingface-cli", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ^^^^^…

Hey @nishadsinghi , Can you maybe try logging in by passing the token directly as a flag in the terminal: huggingface-cli login --token hf_yourtoken If this doesn’t resolve the issue, you can try some other discussed solutions in a similar discussion in (@ How to login to Huggingface Hub with Acce…

Hi @nnilayy , thanks for replying! I tried huggingface-cli login --token my_token and got the same error. I tried the tips from the link you shared (like pasting the token using the mouse instead of cmd+v) and that doesn’t work either. Let me know if you have any other suggestions!

It seems that there are also cases where the cause is something else. [image] Invalid token passed? Beginners Token: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\Users\paint\anaconda3\Scripts\huggingface-cli-script.py”, line 9, in sys.exit(main()) File “C:\Users\paint\…

Hey @John6666 , thanks for your reply :slight_smile: Like I said, I’ve already tried alternative ways of pasting the token, but so far nothing has worked.

It’s not just because of the token, but it seems to happen for other reasons too, such as an old version of git itself… As a result, it cannot interpret the tokens. This happens particularly on Windows.

Hey @nishadsinghi , Another workaround that seems to work on my end is using a notebook to log in within the same environment where huggingface_hub[cli] is installed. You can try running the following in a .ipynb notebook and paste your token into the displayed textbox: from huggingface_hub import …

Hi @nnilayy , thanks for the suggestions. I tried logging in through a notebook but still got the same error. I am using this on a cluster, and I think updating git requires sudo access, so I couldn’t do it. I have a feeling that this is not the root cause of the issue, since things were working fin…

Maybe cluster is suspicious. But for example, there are often cases where authentication fails due to SSL settings, but in that case, the error message shouldn’t be that… So I’m confused.

Hi @nishadsinghi sorry for the inconvenience. Could you try to login using a script just to be 100% sure it’s not a encoding issue with the terminal: from huggingface_hub import login, whoami login(token="hf_....") whoami() Also, could you install huggingface_hub from source (see install steps ) a…

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