# Can't login with huggingface-cli

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**Author:** ![smease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@smease](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsmease)%5C
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcant-login-with-huggingface-cli%2F77615%2F1 "2024-03-15T21:35:25Z")

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Hi,  
I’m having trouble using huggingface-cli. When I attempt to login with:  
huggingface-cli login

And enter my token I keep getting this traceback. This is on Windows 11. Does anybody know a fix? I’ve been blocked on this for 2 days so doesn’t seem to be transitory…

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py”, line 793, in urlopen  
response = self.\_make\_request(  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py”, line 491, in \_make\_request  
raise new\_e  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py”, line 467, in \_make\_request  
self.\_validate\_conn(conn)  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py”, line 1099, in \_validate\_conn  
conn.connect()  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py”, line 653, in connect  
sock\_and\_verified = \_ssl\_wrap\_socket\_and\_match\_hostname(  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py”, line 806, in _ssl\_wrap\_socket\_and\_match\_hostname  
ssl\_sock = ssl\_wrap\_socket(  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
File "C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 465, in ssl\_wrap\_socket  
ssl\_sock = _ssl\_wrap\_socket\_impl(sock, context, tls\_in\_tls, server\_hostname)  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
File "C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 509, in \_ssl\_wrap\_socket\_impl  
return ssl\_context.wrap\_socket(sock, server\_hostname=server\_hostname)  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\ssl.py”, line 517, in wrap\_socket  
return self.sslsocket\_class.\_create(  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\ssl.py”, line 1104, in \_create  
self.do\_handshake()  
File “C:\Users\scott\anaconda3\envs\hf\Lib\ssl.py”, line 1382, in do\_handshake  
self.\_sslobj.do\_handshake()  
ConnectionResetError: [WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

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**Author:** ![AndreasKarasenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@AndreasKarasenko](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FAndreasKarasenko)%5C
**Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcant-login-with-huggingface-cli%2F77615%2F2 "2024-05-02T16:15:52Z")

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I’m facing the exact same problem …  
Hoping for some official answers!