N8N installed using NPM. When starting with Chrome, asks for email and password

Questions
1

I installed N8N using NPM, and Start in CMD using cmd ‘n8n’, it starts and pressing ‘O’ starts it in MS EDGE, but when i try to start it in Chrome, It asks for email and password, while in EDGE, it does not. How can I start it in Chrome?,

Describe the problem/error/question

What is the error message (if any)?

Please share your workflow

(Select the nodes on your canvas and use the keyboard shortcuts CMD+C/CTRL+C and CMD+V/CTRL+V to copy and paste the workflow.)

Share the output returned by the last node

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version:
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
  • Operating system:
2

Hey, can you double check that Chrome is set as the default browser?

Asking for a password is normal, it should cache it and not ask it always though. If you don’t know your password you can reset it through the CLI without losing your workflows.

Does this answer your question?

3

Thanks for quick reply.

No, Chrome is not the default browser but EDGE is. Do I have to ser Chrome as the default? Currently, pressing O in cmd starts it in Edge without asking for email/pwd

4

Yes, you need to change the default browser to open from terminal, or manually open Chrome and type your localhost:5678 or domain that n8n runs on.

I’m using Chrome and it’s not asking me for a pass each time, if you are logging in each time and it still asks for a password this might mean it’s not preserving the cookies for that address for some reason.

Is this what’s happening on Chrome?

5

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.