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title: '`glab auth`'
stage: Create
group: Code Review
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Manage authentication for glab.

## Synopsis

Manages authentication for glab against one or more GitLab instances. Use
these commands to log in, log out, check your authentication status,
and configure glab as a credential helper for Git and Docker.

glab can authenticate with a personal access token, an OAuth token from
a web flow, or a CI job token when running in a GitLab CI/CD job.

## Options inherited from parent commands

```plaintext
  -h, --help   Show help for this command.
```

## Subcommands

- [`configure-docker`](configure-docker.md)
- [`docker-helper`](docker-helper.md)
- [`dpop-gen`](dpop-gen.md)
- [`login`](login.md)
- [`logout`](logout.md)
- [`status`](status.md)
