Unable to Authenticate with ChatGPT account
What version of Codex is running?
0.16.0
Which model were you using?
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What platform is your computer?
Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x86_64
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- start codex cli with
codexafter a fresh install - choose option 1. for signing in (Sign in with ChatGPT)
What is the expected behavior?
Expected the browser to open up automatically for authentication which did not happen.
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What do you see instead?
On following manual steps as seen in the image, I get errors and am unable to log in - sometimes logging in is successful, but then it redirects to localhost/... and nothing happens after.
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<img width="1916" height="1004" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d2a55151-772b-438d-af2c-0002e9aa6893" />
<img width="594" height="708" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cffd80d0-32b0-49b8-a378-8015787ae85e" />
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Additional information
Since the brower didn't automatically start on the specified localhost port, I visited the url and successfully logged in and then it failed again in this exact sequence:
<img width="745" height="136" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a15cac27-5d5b-4b03-9186-80ce492fdbed" />
<img width="574" height="606" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/99c48aed-70ec-416a-9426-69a91320503f" />
<img width="771" height="276" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2d949a04-a1b4-4808-953b-e64b777dafd3" />
12 Comments
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For me just opens url in terminal and I can't do anything
In my case, I get to log in with my ChatGPT account but even though I'm on Plus plan, CODEX connects to my API Org and uses API quota instead.
Login seems borken, is it supposed to work also for browerless machines?
having the same issue. really weird because i had no trouble with claude code or gemini cli
@ro-nin-labs If you're also on windows, install Firefox inside of WSL and then try
codex loginand ignore warnings about gio.This worked for me
Having the same issue, using a ssh tunnel as mentioned on the readme.md didn't work either. Just trying to auth running on a headless Linux server (so no way to launch browser on that machine).
I've been trying to solve this issue for at least 2 hours with the help of chatgpt...nothing works. The port codex uses is literally a windows reserved port - possibly even by WSL itself or hyper-v or something. I even tried using curl -v and the url that is returned after I log in, but even that does not work. I'm going to try installing firefox in wsl, my last try before I give up entirely
@Zenchess what error are you seeing, and is that on 0.22, which has some fixes?
Hi - I have the same issue with my Enterprise account. Do I need to ask the admin to enable a feature, or are enterprise accounts still unable to use the CLI? I can access the codex on the browser.
installing firefox in the wsl (i'm assuming you're trying to run this from wsl), solved the problem for me
https://developers.openai.com/codex/enterprise
Not sure if this is a reaction on this or similar issues. But that at least solves the mistery for the Ent accounts.
It looks like this thread involves a number of (likely unrelated) problems. I suspect that most have been fixed in the intervening releases, so I'm going to close the issue. If you experience a similar problem, please open a new bug report with details.