Pulumi Playground - Unable to create new pulumi project in pulumi sandbox due to 'invalid access token error'

[ARATHYRK1]

Unable to create new pulumi project in pulumi sandbox due to ‘invalid access token error’.
Hi community, post logging into the pulumi sandbox and configuring the aws credentials - access key, secret access key, region(us-east-1) and output format, i tried running pulumi new from the terminal.

At first i encountered an error, "
error: /root is not empty; rerun in an empty directory, pass the path to an empty directory to --dir, or use --force"

so i created a new directory, switched to that directory and ran pulumi new --dir /path/to/dir
However, im still facing issue logging in:

controlplane ~/ark_pulumi on (us-east-1) ➜ pulumi new Manage your Pulumi stacks by logging in. Run pulumi login --help for alternative login options. Enter your access token from Pulumi Cloud

I’m not sure what access token to use here. Do i need to create a token for myself using " Pulumi Cloud" or can i override this somehow?

Has anybody faced this issue?

Im currently stuck at 'pulumi new ’ due to this issue

Thanks in advance,
Arathy

[Alistair_KodeKloud]

No I don’t know Pulumi, but given the output of pulumi login --help I would think that you need to perform a local login, since this playground is not associated with any pulumi cloud server.

[PREVIEW] If you prefer to operate Pulumi independently of a Pulumi Cloud, and entirely local to your computer

Reading further in the help message, the implication is that you need to run

pulumi login --local

Set up the AWS credentails

Install the programming language you intend to use first, e.g nodejs (javascript) or python as none of these are pre-installed on the lab terminal

Then follow the steps to create a project

And it should work