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And confirm you are logged into local backend

If so, then you should be able to “Pulumi logout” from that backend

If you are trying to login to the Pulumi Managed Backend, you need to use the api URL and not the console URL. So it should be `pulumi login <https://api.pulumi.com>`. Notice that it is `api` and not `app`.

There is an issue open to make the error message more helpful: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3194>

well the issue was I had not logged out of `local` so I wasn't able to login to pulumi backend... Moreover, the [login page](<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/pulumi_login>) says it should be `<http://app.pulumi.com|app.pulumi.com>` (`app` instead of `api`) so this create MORE confusion :stuck_out_tongue:

&gt; Moreover, the [login page](<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/pulumi_login>) says it should be `<http://app.pulumi.com|app.pulumi.com>`

Do you mean this line?

`By default, this will log into <http://app.pulumi.com|app.pulumi.com> ...`

If so, the page is correct, but a bit unclear. By specifying the <http://api.pulumi.com|api.pulumi.com> URL as the backend for the CLI, you will be logged-into your account that you have on <http://app.pulumi.com|app.pulumi.com>. But I can see how that is confusing. I’ll add an issue to clarify that.