Error map
unauthorized: authentication required unauthorized: authentication required (docker push / pull)
Docker · layer 6, Platform & cloud
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denied: requested access to the resource is denied (docker push)
You’re logged in, but not allowed to push to that repository — usually the image isn’t tagged with your own username/organisation.
Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: exit status 1
docker login authenticated, but the credential helper (keychain, pass, wincred) couldn’t store the password.
Bearer error="invalid_token": IDX10223: Lifetime validation failed. The token is expired / IDX10501: Signature validation failed
ASP.NET Core’s JwtBearer middleware rejected the token — expired (IDX10223), signature key not found (IDX10501/IDX10503), or wron…
denied: Your authorization token has expired. Reauthenticate and try again. (Amazon ECR)
Docker’s login to Amazon ECR has expired — ECR tokens last 12 hours, so pushes and pulls fail until you log in again.
IDX20803: Unable to obtain configuration from: 'https://login.example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration'
The OpenID Connect / JWT bearer middleware couldn’t download the identity provider’s metadata, so it can’t validate tokens or red…
Firebase Auth: auth/invalid-credential (auth/wrong-password, auth/user-not-found, auth/invalid-login-credentials)
Firebase rejected the email/password sign-in — wrong password, no such user, or a provider credential that’s malformed/expired.
AWS Cognito: NotAuthorizedException: Incorrect username or password
Cognito rejected the sign-in — wrong credentials, a disabled user, an auth flow not enabled on the app client, or an expired refr…
pull access denied for image, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'
Docker couldn’t pull the image: the name or tag is wrong, the repository is private and you’re not logged in, or it doesn’t exist…
Azure Container Registry: unauthorized: authentication required, visit https://aka.ms/acr/authorization (AKS ErrImagePull 401)
Pulling/pushing to ACR wasn’t authenticated — Docker not logged in, or AKS/App Service lacks AcrPull on the registry.
Azure CLI: Please run 'az login' to setup account / No subscription found
The Azure CLI has no signed-in account (or its token expired), or the account has no subscriptions.
DefaultAzureCredential failed to retrieve a token from the included credentials / ManagedIdentityCredential authentication unavailable
The Azure SDK tried every credential source (env vars, workload identity, managed identity, CLI…) and none worked.
MongoDB: MongoServerError: bad auth : Authentication failed (code 8000 / 18)
MongoDB (often Atlas) rejected the username/password in the connection string.
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Git: ! [rejected] … (fetch first) — error: failed to push some refs
The remote branch has commits you don’t have locally, so Git refuses to overwrite them. Pull (merge or rebase) first, then push.
Azure AD (Entra ID): AADSTS700016 Application not found in the directory
The client ID in your sign-in request doesn’t exist in the tenant you’re authenticating against.
HTTP 401 Unauthorized
The request has no valid authentication credentials — you need to log in or send a valid token.
API Error: Feature not enabled for this account (feature_not_enabled / not available on your plan)
The endpoint or option exists, but your account, plan, region or project hasn’t been granted access to it.
http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client (insecure registry)
Docker spoke HTTPS to a registry that only serves plain HTTP — typically a local or lab registry.
error getting credentials - err: exec: "docker-credential-desktop": executable file not found in $PATH
~/.docker/config.json tells Docker to use a credential helper (desktop, osxkeychain, wincred) that isn’t installed or on PATH.
Git: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
SSH authentication to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket failed — no key, wrong key, or the key isn’t added to your account.
JWT Expired / Invalid Token
The JSON Web Token sent with the request is expired, malformed or signed with a different key, so the API rejects it (usually wit…
OAuth 2.0 Error: invalid_grant
The authorization code, refresh token or credentials sent to the token endpoint are invalid, expired, already used or were issued…
AWS: ExpiredToken — The security token included in the request is expired
Temporary AWS credentials (STS/SSO/assumed role) have expired.
API Error: Invalid API Key / Incorrect API key provided
The API didn’t recognise the key sent with the request — it’s wrong, revoked, from another environment, or sent in the wrong plac…
Azure AD (Entra ID): AADSTS50076 / AADSTS50079 — multi-factor authentication required
A Conditional Access policy requires MFA, but the sign-in flow (often a script, legacy client or ROPC password grant) can’t compl…
remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/x/y.git/' not found
GitHub/GitLab says the repository doesn’t exist — or you lack access to a private repo.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/x/y.git/'
HTTPS authentication to the Git host failed — wrong or expired credentials, or a password used where a token is required.
remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
GitHub no longer accepts account passwords for Git over HTTPS.
Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
SSH doesn’t trust the server’s host key — first connection in a non-interactive environment, or the key changed.
! [remote rejected] … (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/x.yml` without `workflow` scope)
Your token can’t modify GitHub Actions workflow files without the workflow scope.
ReplyError: NOAUTH Authentication required.
The Redis server requires a password (or ACL user) but the client didn’t authenticate.
npm ERR! code E401 — Unable to authenticate, need: Basic realm / Incorrect or missing password
The registry rejected your credentials — missing, expired or wrong auth token.
npm ERR! code ENEEDAUTH — need auth This command requires you to be logged in
npm needs credentials (publishing, private packages) but none are configured for that registry.
npm ERR! code EOTP — This operation requires a one-time password from your authenticator
Your npm account has 2FA for writes and no one-time password was supplied.
Kubernetes: ImagePullBackOff / ErrImagePull
The node can’t pull the container image — wrong name/tag, missing registry credentials, or registry unreachable.
manifest for image:tag not found: manifest unknown
The repository exists, but the tag you asked for doesn’t — it was never pushed, was deleted, or is misspelled.
toomanyrequests: You have reached your pull rate limit (Docker Hub)
Docker Hub limits anonymous and free pulls; your IP or account has used its quota for the current window.
Docker: Bind for 0.0.0.0:80 failed: port is already allocated
Another container or host process already publishes that host port.
Kubernetes: CrashLoopBackOff
The container starts, crashes (or exits), and Kubernetes keeps restarting it with increasing back-off delays.
Conflict. The container name "/x" is already in use by container …
A container (running or stopped) already has that name; Docker won’t create a second one with the same name.
UnrecognizedClientException: The security token included in the request is invalid
The access key or session token isn’t recognised — wrong/deleted key, a session token missing for temporary credentials, or a reg…
Error response from daemon: Get "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/": unauthorized: incorrect username or password
docker login was rejected — wrong credentials, or the account requires an access token instead of the password.
error: You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized)
The cluster rejected kubectl’s credentials — expired token, wrong kubeconfig user, or cloud IAM identity not allowed.
Azure: AuthorizationFailed — The client does not have authorization to perform action
The signed-in identity (user, service principal or managed identity) lacks an Azure RBAC role for that action on that scope.
Received disconnect: Too many authentication failures
Your SSH agent offered too many keys before the right one, and the server cut the connection (MaxAuthTries, default 6).
AADSTS50126: Error validating credentials due to invalid username or password
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) rejected the sign-in because the username or password is wrong — or the flow can’t use passwords fo…
MongooseServerSelectionError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017
The MongoDB driver couldn’t find a reachable server for the connection string.
{"message":"Missing Authentication Token"} / No authorization token was found
The request reached a protected endpoint without credentials — or, on AWS API Gateway, it hit a path/method that doesn’t exist.
invalid_token: The access token is invalid (JsonWebTokenError: invalid signature / jwt malformed)
A token was sent but the server couldn’t verify it — bad signature, malformed, revoked, or issued for another audience or environ…
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