# Renku on headless server **URL:** \ **Category:** Renku (CLI)\ **Created:** [23 June 2022 13:35 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-on-headless-server/654 "2022-06-23T13:35:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jkminder](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/jkminder/32/448_2.png) [@jkminder](https://renku.discourse.group/u/jkminder)\ **Post date:** [23 June 2022 13:35 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-on-headless-server/654/1 "2022-06-23T13:35:44Z")
Hi, I’m working via ssh on a remote headless compute cluster and need to login to renku to work with private datasets. As this does not work with ssh keys my only option is using `renku login renkulab.io`. But this requires a browser! My machine does not have a GUI installed and I do not want to deal with some hackish terminal browser solution. Please add the option to somehow login into renku on a headless machine, may it be by directly entering login creds in the terminal or by enabling ssh keys. I would argue this is quite an essential feature. A CLI tool that is used to handle code/data versioning should be fully usable without any GUI integration, especially if the desired functionality works only in the CLI (the web UI does not support importing private datasets). I would argue that working on an headless remote machine is quite a common use-case. I don’t want to pull the whole repo onto my local machine every time I need private credentials. Please fix this! Thanks a lot for your efforts! ---
**Author:** ![jkminder](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/jkminder/32/448_2.png) [@jkminder](https://renku.discourse.group/u/jkminder)\ **Post date:** [24 June 2022 10:01 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renku-on-headless-server/654/2 "2022-06-24T10:01:52Z")
For anyone having this issue. I was told this would be fixed in a future release very soon.