I think I might have asked this question before, but I’m not sure because of the 90-day Slack message expiration. Sorry in advance. When using

ory tunnel

, it asks you to authenticate, with this message:

To support complex flows such as Social Sign In, the Ory CLI can configure your project automatically. To do so, you need to be signed in. Do you want to sign in? [y/n]: n

WARN Because you are not authenticated, the Ory CLI can not configure your project automatically. You can still use the Ory Proxy / Ory Tunnel, but complex flows such as Social Sign In will not work.

This message is unfortunately very vague, and I don’t feel like I’m given enough information to make an informed decision here. I’d really prefer to avoid the CLI “configuring my project automatically”; I’d much rather make any configuration changes myself so I can know the state of my project. I’m also left wondering why “complex flows will not work”. It seems like social sign in is working with my tunnel, but maybe I haven’t run into whatever scenario this is configuring my project for. tl;dr: I think the development experience can be improved here by either giving a more descriptive message in the CLI or by at least giving a though explanation in the relevant docs.

Hey @millions-van-11508 I agree, we should be more transparent about this. The tunnel only creates an API key on the project so that social sign in works through the tunnel. After the tunnel process is killed the API key should be removed from the project. Alternatively you can also remove the API keys as they will be named "Ory CLI Proxy / Tunnel - Temporary API Key".