sf auth accesstoken store failing with User force closed the prompt with 13 null

[mnunezdm]

Summary

We have a flow where we curl a client_credentials login, get the token and login into sf cli using sf auth accesstoken store. Since last release is failing with the errorr User force closed the prompt with 13 null

Steps To Reproduce

• Try to login into sf cli using sf auth accesstoken store

Expected result

Correct login

Actual result

Error

Additional information

Having a way to login using client_credentials flow directly in sf would be ideal.

This is happening in actual rc and stable

System Information

bash / zsh

{
  "architecture": "darwin-arm64",
  "cliVersion": "@salesforce/cli/2.138.6",
  "nodeVersion": "node-v22.22.3",
  "osVersion": "Darwin 25.3.0",
  "rootPath": "/Users/miguelnunezdiaz-montes/.local/share/sf/client/2.138.6-fab2b4f",
  "shell": "zsh",
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    "@oclif/plugin-commands 4.1.57 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-help 6.2.50 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-not-found 3.2.87 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-plugins 5.4.72 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-search 1.2.50 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-update 4.7.46 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-version 2.2.47 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 3.1.65 (core)",
    "@oclif/plugin-which 3.2.55 (core)",
    "@salesforce/analytics 1.4.69 (user) published 9 days ago (Sun May 31 2026)",
    "@salesforce/cli 2.138.6 (core)",
    "agent 1.42.1 (user) published 4 days ago (Thu Jun 04 2026)",
    "apex 3.9.32 (core)",
    "api 1.3.37 (core)",
    "auth 4.4.1 (core)",
    "code-analyzer 5.13.0 (user) published 15 days ago (Mon May 25 2026)",
    "data 4.0.106 (core)",
    "deploy-retrieve 3.24.54 (core)",
    "info 3.4.139 (core)",
    "limits 3.3.92 (core)",
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    "packaging 2.29.2 (user) published 0 days ago (Tue Jun 09 2026)",
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    "user 3.10.1 (core)",
    "apex-code-coverage-transformer 2.14.2 (user) published 189 days ago (Mon Dec 01 2025) (latest is 2.21.0)",
    "sfdmu 5.6.4 (user) published 53 days ago (Fri Apr 17 2026)",
    "sfdx-git-delta 6.31.0 (user) published 116 days ago (Thu Feb 12 2026)",
    "sfdx-hardis 7.16.2-beta202606051324.0 (user) published 4 days ago (Fri Jun 05 2026) (latest is 7.16.0)"
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}

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[mnunezdm]

Issue not present in 2.136.8, pinning to this version until this is fixed

https://developer.salesforce.com/media/salesforce-cli/sf/versions/2.136.8/266ec84/sf-v2.136.8-266ec84-linux-x64.tar.xz

[iowillhoit]

Hey @mnunezdm 👋 How are you getting the token? This is probably related to this change #3560

[mnunezdm]

As I told in the issue we curl a login using a client_credentials flow