[BUG] Login with a paranoid captcha

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Login is a real pain!

I'm log in by email and it drives me around in circles through endless captchas.

I have entered an email, solve captcha (#1). Then I am waiting for an email with a code. Why?! Have you forgotten how to log in with a password?

The link from the mail leads (via another captcha! #2) to the page with the code. The code must be copied and pasted on the login page. Captcha again (#3). Then I don't understand what's going on anymore, I keep pushing buttons and solving captchas, and at some point I finally log in.

At the same time, Claude Code forgets about me after 8 hours of inactivity. For a second, 8 o'clock is the sleep time of a healthy person. No one spends so much time in development that this limit does not come.

Total: every single day I fight my way through the wilds of authentication. Can it be made more difficult? Of course! Send an authentication code that cannot be copied, so we must to type it manually.

What Should Happen?

Email + password. One simple action. Throttling for the wrong password. Or, if you want so, 2FA via Authenticator app.

No captchas at all! This is the worst solution that can be used in relation to the user auth.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Just try to use Claude Code, when your authentication expired.

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.227

Platform

Other

Operating System

Other

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

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