% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014
docker-login - Register or log in to a Docker registry.
docker login [-e|--email[=EMAIL]] [--help] [-p|--password[=PASSWORD]] [-u|--username[=USERNAME]] [SERVER]
Register or log in to a Docker Registry located on the specified SERVER
. You can specify a URL or a hostname
for the SERVER
value. If you do not specify a SERVER
, the command uses Docker‘s public registry located at https://registry-1.docker.io/
by default. To get a username/password for Docker’s public registry, create an account on Docker Hub.
You can log into any public or private repository for which you have credentials. When you log in, the command stores encoded credentials in $HOME/.docker/config.json
on Linux or %USERPROFILE%/.docker/config.json
on Windows.
-e, --email="" Email
--help Print usage statement
-p, --password="" Password
-u, --username="" Username
# docker login localhost:8080
docker-logout(1) to log out from a Docker registry.
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and internal work. June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au April 2015, updated by Mary Anthony for v2 mary@docker.com