{"version":"2.1.265","anchor":"clearer-managed-settings-gateway-sign-in-error-message","canonical_anchor":"clearer-managed-settings-gateway-sign-in-error-message","heading":"Clearer managed-settings gateway sign-in error message","tier":"notice","area":"Auth","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.265\/e\/clearer-managed-settings-gateway-sign-in-error-message","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.265","markdown":"### Clearer managed-settings gateway sign-in error message\n\nGateway sign-in error now explains itself in plain language instead of naming the internal forceLoginMethod setting\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a machine's managed settings (an admin-controlled settings file) require signing in through a cloud gateway, Claude Code used to show the raw internal error \"forceLoginMethod is 'gateway' in managed settings\". It now shows a plain-language message instead: managed settings on this machine configure a cloud gateway sign-in, and the user should run `\/login` from an interactive terminal to authenticate. This applies both to the CLI's login-validation path and to a separate stderr early-exit path.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe old message exposed an internal setting name that meant nothing to most users. The new wording tells people what's actually happening and what to do about it.\n\n- Area: Auth\n- Names: `\/login`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}