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CLI Authentication

Use the litellm cli to authenticate to the LiteLLM Gateway. This is great if you're trying to give a large number of developers self-serve access to the LiteLLM Gateway.

Demo​

Usage​

  1. Install the CLI

    If you have uv installed, you can try this:

    uv tool install 'litellm[proxy]'

    If that works, you'll see something like this:

    ...
    Installed 2 executables: litellm, litellm-proxy

    and now you can use the tool by just typing litellm-proxy in your terminal:

    litellm-proxy

  2. Set up environment variables

    export LITELLM_PROXY_URL=http://localhost:4000

    (Replace with your actual proxy URL)

  3. Login

    litellm-proxy login

    This will open a browser window to authenticate. If you have connected LiteLLM Proxy to your SSO provider, you should be able to login with your SSO credentials. Once logged in, you can use the CLI to make requests to the LiteLLM Gateway.

  4. Make a test request to view models

    litellm-proxy models list

    This will list all the models available to you.