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Hi folks,
I am beginning to use CLI 2020.1 and I am having trouble understanding this `-authid` option.
Does anyone know how to get this value or make one?

`authid` is a user specified string, an alias for the the token you are issuing or saving. you can choose the string so you can identify the account/role associated with it.
So later that `authid` / `alias` can be used with all commands like
`sdfcli deploy -authid prod_12345_dev`

<@U9U62UJMD> you have already figured it out but just in case

any progress on making this work on WSL in windows? It will be a showstopper for me in 2020.2 if the commandline options for authentication are removed.

<@UFUCXSXCJ> I think the documentation is a bit missleading. If I want to store a manual issued token U also need to use the `authenticate` command. Even though the documentation says you should use `savetoken`  which does not work.

<@U9U62UJMD> Thanks for the feedback.
We are improving the documentation.
if you want to save a token you have to use
`authenticate -savetoken`
If you use just `authenticate` it will prompt you to web based authentication

<@U5375UUJ2> Thanks for the reminder. we are checking the possibilities. Will share the updates with you as soon as we can.

Yeah thats what I found out after trying around. But my first logic step would have been to use `savetoken`  just based on name and since I believe in your tutorials on SuiteHelp it is mentioned to use that if you manual created a token