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Authentication token manipulation error passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
Linux · layer 6, Platform & cloud
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Directly related (12)
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…
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…
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…
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory (systemctl --user / timedatectl)
The command needs the D-Bus/systemd bus, which isn’t available in this session — common over su, sudo -u, cron, containers or WSL.
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…
Keycloak: invalid_grant — Account is not fully set up
The user has pending required actions (verify email, update password, configure OTP), so non-interactive token requests (password…
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…
user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Your account isn’t allowed to use sudo.
AADSTS50057: The user account is disabled
The account exists but is blocked from signing in.
MongoDB: MongoServerError: bad auth : Authentication failed (code 8000 / 18)
MongoDB (often Atlas) rejected the username/password in the connection string.
Two steps away (36)
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 400 Bad Request
The server could not understand the request because its syntax, headers or body are malformed or invalid.
HTTP 401 Unauthorized
The request has no valid authentication credentials — you need to log in or send a valid token.
HTTP 403 Forbidden
The server understood the request but refuses to authorize it — you (or the server process) are not allowed to access this resour…
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…
Webhook signature verification failed (Stripe, Razorpay, GitHub…)
Your endpoint computed a different HMAC signature than the one the provider sent, so the webhook is rejected.
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.
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.
Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code
systemd tried to start the service, but its start command failed. The real reason is in the service’s status/journal.
Failed to start x.service: Unit x.service not found
systemd has no unit with that name — the package isn’t installed, the name differs on this distro, or a new unit file wasn’t load…
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
You ran systemctl inside an environment without systemd as PID 1 — a Docker container or older WSL.
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.
AADSTS50034: The user account does not exist in the directory
There’s no user with that sign-in name in the tenant.
bcrypt error: Illegal arguments: undefined, string / data and salt arguments required / data and hash arguments required
bcrypt.compare/hash received undefined — the password field or stored hash wasn’t passed.
Keycloak: We are sorry... Invalid parameter: redirect_uri
The redirect_uri in the login request isn’t in the Keycloak client’s Valid Redirect URIs.
! [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.
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.
{"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.
AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:iam::... is not authorized to perform: service:Action on resource: ...
The IAM user or role making the call has no permission for that action on that resource — the message names both.
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…
Linux: Permission denied
Your user (or the service user) lacks read/write/execute permission on a file, directory or one of its parents.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend — is another process using it?
apt can’t run because another package operation (often automatic updates) holds the dpkg lock.
java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /path
The OS denied a file operation to the Java process.
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…
AADSTS50020: User account from identity provider does not exist in tenant and cannot access the application
The signed-in user belongs to another tenant (or is a personal Microsoft account) and isn’t a guest in the app’s tenant.
AADSTS90002: Tenant 'x' not found
The tenant ID or domain in the authority URL doesn’t exist — or isn’t in the cloud you’re calling (public vs government/China).
MongooseServerSelectionError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017
The MongoDB driver couldn’t find a reachable server for the connection string.
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…
unauthorized: authentication required (docker push / pull)
The registry needs credentials for this operation and the request had none or had expired ones.
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