Authenticating as a user

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Updated at February 6, 2025

To get started with Yandex Cloud, you need a Yandex account.

You can authenticate in the profile creation wizard using the yc init command or following these steps:

Get an OAuth token.
Create a profile.
Specify your OAuth token in the token parameter:
```
yc config set token <OAuth token>
```

The OAuth token is saved in the profile configuration for automatically authenticating.