atuinsh/atuin · error

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What it means

atuin's `account change-password` command refuses to run when the local settings indicate the user has no saved login session. Before creating an authenticated client, `Cmd::run` calls `settings.logged_in().await?`; if no session token exists on this machine, it bails with this message instead of making a doomed API call. It is a pre-flight guard, not a server rejection.

Source

Thrown at crates/atuin/src/command/client/account/change_password.rs:23

use rpassword::prompt_password;

#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
pub struct Cmd {
    #[clap(long, short)]
    pub current_password: Option<String>,

    #[clap(long, short)]
    pub new_password: Option<String>,

    /// The two-factor authentication code for your account, if any
    #[clap(long, short)]
    pub totp_code: Option<String>,
}

impl Cmd {
    pub async fn run(&self, settings: &Settings) -> Result<()> {
        if !settings.logged_in().await? {
            bail!("You are not logged in");
        }

        let client = auth::auth_client(settings).await;

        let current_password = self.current_password.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| {
            prompt_password("Please enter the current password: ")
                .expect("Failed to read from input")
        });

        if current_password.is_empty() {
            bail!("please provide the current password");
        }

        let new_password = self.new_password.clone().unwrap_or_else(|| {
            prompt_password("Please enter the new password: ").expect("Failed to read from input")
        });

        if new_password.is_empty() {

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Solutions

1. Run `atuin login` with your username/password first, then retry the password change
2. Verify you are using the intended config directory (check ATUIN_CONFIG_DIR) so the saved session is actually found
3. If you believed you were logged in, re-login to refresh a stale/removed session token
4. Use the web/dashboard to change the password if you cannot log in on this machine

Example fix

// before (fails when not logged in)
atuin account change-password

// after
atuin login
atuin account change-password

# shell pre-check
atuin status >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo 'Not logged in: run `atuin login` first'; exit 1; }

if ! atuin account change-password ...; then
  echo "Not logged in — run 'atuin login' and retry" >&2
fi

When it happens

Trigger: Running `atuin account change-password` (with or without --current-password/--new-password flags) on a machine where `atuin login` was never run, where the session was removed from the meta store, or where a fresh/blank ATUIN_CONFIG_DIR points at a meta store with no session token.

Common situations: CI containers that mount config but never logged in; switching ATUIN_CONFIG_DIR/ATUIN_SESSION so the session is invisible; running the command on a second machine synced only via a record store without a login; after logging out.

Related errors

• You are not logged in
• No CLI session found. Please log in first with 'atuin login'
• unexpected two-factor requirement during registration
• Failed to read from input
• authentication canceled

AI-assisted analysis of atuinsh/atuin@c0c717ab04 (2026-09-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/939f9c4525b8a19b. Report an issue: GitHub.