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E401 npm ERR! code E401 — Unable to authenticate, need: Basic realm / Incorrect or missing password
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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.
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…
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…
HTTP 401 Unauthorized
The request has no valid authentication credentials — you need to log in or send a valid token.
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.
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…
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…
npm ERR! 403 — You cannot publish over the previously published versions: 1.2.3
That version number has already been published (or unpublished) and can’t be reused.
npm ERR! code ETIMEDOUT — network request to https://registry.npmjs.org/x failed, reason: connect ETIMEDOUT
npm couldn’t reach the registry in time — network, proxy or firewall issue.
npm ERR! code ECONNRESET — network aborted / socket hang up
The connection to the registry was reset mid-download.
Two steps away (36)
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Kubernetes: ImagePullBackOff / ErrImagePull
The node can’t pull the container image — wrong name/tag, missing registry credentials, or registry unreachable.
HTTP 400 Bad Request
The server could not understand the request because its syntax, headers or body are malformed or invalid.
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…
AWS: ExpiredToken — The security token included in the request is expired
Temporary AWS credentials (STS/SSO/assumed role) have expired.
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.
AWS: Unable to locate credentials / Could not load credentials from any providers
The AWS CLI/SDK found no credentials in any place it looks — env vars, profile files, SSO cache or an instance/task role.
AWS: SignatureDoesNotMatch / InvalidClientTokenId — the request signature we calculated does not match
AWS rejected the request signature — wrong secret key, wrong region, clock skew, or a presigned URL used differently from how it…
! [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 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.
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.
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.
{"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.
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.
npm ERR! code E403 — 403 Forbidden - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/x - You do not have permission to publish
The registry refused the operation — the package name is taken, you lack publish rights, or 2FA/policies block it.
npm ERR! cb() never called!
An old npm crash during install — usually network/cache corruption.
Error: Cannot find matching keyid (Corepack signature verification)
An older Corepack couldn’t verify the signature of a newly published pnpm/yarn release after npm rotated its signing keys.
API Request Timed Out (ETIMEDOUT / ReadTimeout / timeout of 30000ms exceeded)
The client gave up waiting — either for the connection to open or for the response to arrive.
npm ERR! code E404 — 404 Not Found: package@version is not in this registry
npm asked the registry for a package (or version) that doesn’t exist there — a typo, a private/scoped package without auth, or th…
npm ERR! code ETARGET — No matching version found for package@^9.9.9
The version range in package.json doesn’t match any published version of the package.
Error: socket hang up / read ECONNRESET
The other side closed the TCP connection abruptly while your client was still using it.
npm ERR! code ENOTFOUND — request to https://registry.npmjs.org/x failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND registry.npmjs.org
npm couldn’t resolve the registry hostname.
npm WARN tar TAR_ENTRY_ERROR / npm ERR! tarball data for x seems to be corrupted
A downloaded package tarball is damaged — cache corruption or a network/proxy problem.
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