Recently I faced an issue where I was asked to login to Claude Code repeatly, even though I logged in correctly. I connected to a remote Mac through ssh as well as Apple Remote Desktop. Thus if you use Mac and face similar problems, you could try the following method.
The following texts shows Claude Code would continuously ask user to login, the error message is “Missing API Key” and “Run /login” to initiate the authentication process.
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✻ Welcome to Claude Code! │
│ │
│ /help for help, /status for your current setup │
│ │
│ cwd: /Users/wangxm.com/ │
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╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ > │ │ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
? for shortcuts Missing API key · Run /loginI was frustrated when dealing with this issue, I tried multiple times to login but the error persist.
Finally I decided to search online to find a possible solution, it turns out it is possible to handle this problem. The solution is shown in a github issue discussion thread.
Run the following command on one shell session:
security unlock-keychain ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-dbYou don’t need to worry about the security command, it is Apple’s stock command line app. This would allow the Keychain to be unlocked, such that Claude Code could interact with the keychain file. You may need to use your login password to unlock th keychain.
I admit this is one possible solution to fix the login issue, if I encounter other solutions for other platforms, I will also append the solutions onto this post.
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