meteor deploy should allow non-interactive login

[andrewtamura]

_1 Upvote_ meteor deploy current prompts for email and password. It would be super friendly for CI servers to allow a non-interactive way to deploy. Maybe something like meteor deploy -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD or event accepting a -t TOKEN option. We're currently using the .meteorsession workaround provided by Codeship https://github.com/codeship/scripts/blob/master/deployments/meteor.sh, but it would be easier to maintain if would could pass authentication credentials into the command line.

[tmeasday]

Thanks for the feature request! We welcome discussions about how to make Meteor better. If you haven't yet, check out our wiki page about feature requests on GitHub.

In the past, I've used something along the lines of printf "$user\n$password\n" | meteor login successfully.

[sathishc]

+1

[hwillson]

As mentioned in #5732 (comment), printf will work for this purpose. Here's a quick CircleCI example:

...
deployment:
  production:
    branch: "master"
    commands:
      - printf "SomeUsername\nSomePassword\n" | meteor deploy somehost.com
...

That being said this is probably much less of an issue now that *.meteor.com hosting has been discontinued. Closing for now - thanks for posting this originally!