> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trychroma.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Login > Authenticate with Chroma Cloud using the CLI. The Chroma CLI allows you to perform various operations with your Chroma Cloud account. These include [DB management](./db), [collection copying](./copy) and [browsing](./browse), and many more to come in the future. Use the `login` command, to authenticate the CLI with your Chroma Cloud account, to enable these features. First, in your browser [create](https://trychroma.com/signup?utm_source=docs-cli-login) a Chroma Cloud account or [login](https:trychroma.com/login) into your existing account. Then, in your terminal, run ```bash theme={null} chroma login ``` The CLI will open a browser window verifying that the authentication was successful. If so, you should see the following: CLI login success Back in the CLI, you will be prompted to select the team you want to authenticate with. Each team login gets its own [profile](./profile) in the CLI. Profiles persist the API key and tenant ID for the team you log-in with. You can find all your profiles in `.chroma/credentials` under your home directory. By default, the name of the profile is the same name of the team you logged-in with. However, the CLI will let you edit that name during the login, or later using the `chroma profile rename` command. Upon your first login, the first created profile will be automatically set as your "active" profile. On subsequent logins, the CLI will instruct you how to switch to a new profile you added (using the `chroma profile use` command). In order to login without a browser (for example, in a headless environment), you first need to create an API key in the Chroma Cloud dashboard and then run ```bash theme={null} chroma login --profile my_profile_name --api-key ck-... ```