Merge pull request Ericsson#3599 from csordasmarton/doc_auth_require_…

…login [doc] Highlight that user must be logged in before token generation
w019746 · Feb 16, 2022 · 337e67a · 337e67a
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diff --git a/docs/web/authentication.md b/docs/web/authentication.md
@@ -446,8 +446,11 @@ Command line clients can authenticate itself using the username/password stored
 in the [`.codechecker.passwords.json`](#preconfigured-credentials). It is
 obviously not a good idea to store passwords in text files. Instead of this the
 user is able to generate a token from command line, that can be used to
-authenticate in the name of his/her name. To generate a new token, the user must
-be logged in first.
+authenticate in the name of his/her name.
+
+**Note**: To generate a new token, the user **must be logged in** first. Use
+the `CodeChecker cmd login` command for it. After you have successfully logged
+in you can generate a new token with the `CodeChecker cmd token new` command.
 
 Personal tokens can be written instead of the user's password in the
 `~/.codechecker.passwords.json` file: