# Log in from command line

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/log-in-from-command-line/7804>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/log-in-from-command-line/7804 "2020-01-30T21:06:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/log-in-from-command-line/7804/2 "2020-01-30T21:34:45Z")

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Hey @cgeo13,

Using the [Zoom Web Client](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-Web-Client), you can set a default name and password to join the meeting. This isn’t logging in the user to Zoom, but it is allowing them to join your meeting:

> [@Zoom Web Client Default Username](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-web-client-default-username/4358/2):
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> Hey Subhan, Good news, there is a way! Using this url you can pass a default username. Be sure to include the prefer=1 param and base64encode the username in the un param. https://zoom.us/wc/{MeetingID}/join?prefer=1&un={Base64EncodedUsername} Duplicate of I will be sure to add this to our docs! Thanks and hope this helps!

Add the `&pwd={password}` query param to the url like this:

`https://zoom.us/wc/{MeetingID}/join?prefer=1&un={Base64EncodedUsername}&pwd={password}`

Or you can implement [OAuth](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/getting-started/app-types/create-oauth-app) which logs in the user to their Zoom account, and then direct them to the meeting url which opens the Zoom App.

There is also a setting which only allows logged in Zoom users with certain email names to join your meeting.

> **[Configuring authentication settings and profiles](https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0061263)**
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> Authentication profiles allow hosts to restrict meeting participants and webinar attendees to signed-in

Let me know if that helps!

Thanks,  
Tommy

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