Particle-cli login does not accept username and password anymore

Troubleshooting
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I use Travis CI to build some of my projects that use particle devices. I use the particle-cli to compile the application.
Up to particle-cli@1.27.1 it was possible to login with particle login <username> <password>. This was simple to use with travis that supports encrypted secure environment variables like particle login $PARTICLE_USER $PARTICLE_PWD.
My latest travis build installed particle-cli@1.28.1 and now fails at the particle login.

Is there a reason why the possibility to provide username and password on the login command line was removed?

Thanks and regards
Franz

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@jvanier refactored the CLI recently and the functionality might have changed.

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I’ve always used expect to feed input to particle login, which has worked well for years.

Try this expect script:

The spawn line may have to be updated to whatever which particle gives you.

After saving, and making it executable, you can run it with:

./expect-script $PARTICLE_USER $PARTICLE_PWD
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Thanks for reporting this. I worked on a refactor of the command line parsing recently and several commands had undocumented command line arguments that I wasn’t aware of. I opened a bug report on GitHub to bring back this behavior. https://github.com/particle-iot/particle-cli/issues/408

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:+1: Thanks.