now-cli login giving me unauthorized for confirmed credentials

[cedricvl]

Following all steps on https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/guides/orlando/now-experience/cli/getting-started, I have now-cli working, but I cannot login to any instance using the admin credentials I know work just fine:

```

$ node --version
v12.16.1

$ now-cli --version
Now CLI @17.0.3

$ now-cli login --host https://xxxx.service-now.com --method basic --username admin --password yyyy
✖ Connection to 'https://xxxx.service-now.com' failed. Credentials not saved.
Response code 401 (Unauthorized)

 login [host] [method] [username] [password]

Login to a glide instance.

```

Is any config required on the instance level to get now-cli logins work?

[jwd3]

Do you happen to have Multi-factor authentication turned on for the instance?  MFA seems to break the now-cli login and you have to turn it off temporarily to deploy.

[cedricvl]

Thanks for replying @jwd ! MFA is not enabled. It's a basic free personal instance running Orlando. Nothing in particular enabled.

[Nitin_NOW]

Hello

I came across the same issue. now cli throws me an error 'Credentials are not saved' with 401 response code. However I see we have the MFA enabled. I don't think I can disable MFA for my account, as it is enabled via a system property. What would be the alternate ways to login with MFA enabled? 

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Nitin

[Muralidharan BS]

HI Nitin,

Did you get any change to disable the MFA in your sys_user table. The field name in Enable Multifactor Authentication in list view. 

Thanks