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Clarification for Wrangler/Miniflared auth variance

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Description

### Proposed changes

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/
or
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/testing/miniflare/

### Subject Matter

My auth method updated from wrangler login to using local api tokens when i set them up without me realizing it. Would've been nice to know.

### Content Location

I think an additional section within wrangler - https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/ labeled `auth` or something that explains the different forms of login whether you sign in using wrangler login or put CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN and CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID in you .env or any other methods there are that I don't know about.

### Additional information

This caused me considerable headache when trying to figure out why my local tests weren't working but they would work when I hit the remote api. I had unintentionally updated wrangler to use the CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN for auth instead of my login simply by adding those values to my .env file.

There is one reference to auth I could find under the workers page: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/migration/v1-to-v2/wrangler-legacy/authentication/

but this is not all that helpful.

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