# rpk cloud auth

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Manage `rpk` cloud authentications (auths).

An `rpk` cloud authentication allows you to talk to Redpanda Cloud. Most likely, you will only ever need to use a single SSO based login and you will not need this command space. Multiple authentications can be useful if you have multiple Redpanda Cloud accounts for different organizations and you want to swap between them, or if you use both SSO and client credentials. Redpanda Data recommends using only a single SSO based login.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk cloud auth [command] [flags]
```

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| -h, --help | - | Help for auth. |
| --config | string | Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. |
| -X, --config-opt | stringArray | Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail. |
| --profile | string | Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details. |
| -v, --verbose | - | Enable verbose logging. |