Cause (Documented platform behavior): Localhost callback unreachable from browser host.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Workaround (not a fix): For automation, use claude setup-token + CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN (see separate record)
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshoot-install (official_docs, 2026-09, official_recommended_action): Docs describe code-paste fallback, BROWSER env for WSL2, and `claude auth login` reading pasted code from stdin.
Search phrasings: claude code login ssh remote server; claude code wsl2 browser does not open login
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Browser shows a code instead of redirecting; or browser doesn't open from WSL2; paste doesn't register.
- Context
- Product: Claude Code CLI Component: OAuth login Operation: claude /login on remote or containerized host Affected versions: unknown Environment: WSL2, SSH, containers, headless servers Trigger: Browser runs on a different host than the callback server.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Paste code here if prompted
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Claude Code] OAuth login in WSL2/SSH/container: browser redirect can't reach local callback
Recommended action: Paste the displayed code at the prompt; set BROWSER to Windows browser path in WSL2; use `claude auth login` which reads the code from stdin when paste fails.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 797fd7c6-fd21-4502-8d82-b035e0b84aa8
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Paste the displayed code at the prompt; set BROWSER to Windows browser path in WSL2; use `claude auth login` which reads the code from stdin when paste fails.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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