Yeah, no, this is a remnant of the old separation between eddie-ui and eddie-cli in Eddie versions before 2.18.9, I think. The latter is now called with eddie-ui --cli. I agree that it's confusing and should be changed accordingly.
But yes, --login username --password password is probably also needed if there is no default.profile file in ~/.config/Eddie/. Simply append them to the command I gave you and change username and password to your own.