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Ask HN: Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users?

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8 hours ago

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OpenAI rolled out a shiny new version of codex (the CLI) that finally supports device code authentication, so now it's finally now awkward to use it in headless environments. And they appear to have disabled the old non-headless variant in the mean time.

But trying to use it in a workspace says "Please contact your workspace admin to enable device code authentication". It's not obvious that this setting actually exists, and OpenAI's chat support says, and I quote, "The latest updates require device code authentication, which works for personal ChatGPT accounts but does not work for workspace (Business/Enterprise/Edu) users."

An actual human at OpenAI closed the relevant issue as "not planned": https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9253

Did OpenAI really just decide that it doesn't need to be possible to use the codex CLI on a paid workspace plan?

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CjHuber

5 hours ago

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I didn't upgrade yet but for me codex on a business plan still works, so they didn't deprecate the old auth (yet).

But yeah honestly I've never seen any other repo with so many important issues that are just being closed without fixes.

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amluto

3 hours ago

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I think you're best off not upgrading for the time being. It seems like the old auth still works server-side but the the new auth is very, very busted if you are not on a personal plan.

But good news: you can fake out codex-rs into thinking it's not headless by unsetting all SSH environment variables and setting DISPLAY=foo to recover the old behavior.