Unauthorized: authentication required Harbor

Question

I am facing the following issue.

I have a harbor private registry and i am trying to login through docker cli.

I am able to login successfully with: docker login <harbor_ip>. When i execute this command the cli is asking me for username and password and it logins successfully.

But when i try to login with the following command docker login -u <username> -p <password> <harbor_ip> i get the following error:

unauthorized: authentication required

Bear in mind i am using the same credentials.

Why this is happening?

Any special characters in your password that might break password input? Have you tried using the long notation instead of shorthand (-u and -p)? Are you absolutely sure the input is the same? What happens if you put the password in a file and use --password-stdin? — JustLudo, Oct 13 '21 at 12:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '22 at 07:10

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Please wrap your username and password with single quote

docker login -u '<username>' -p '<password>' <harbor_ip>

answered Sep 21 '22 at 07:10

stonezdj

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I find it INSANE that this was the fix for me. This is such a glaring defect in the CLI IMO. – Andrew Knackstedt Apr 19 '23 at 01:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '22 at 08:44

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when you are using haproxy or cdn infront of harbor to handle ssh termination, its important to set external_url in harbor.yml file.

it solved my problem

answered Sep 08 '22 at 08:44

Aref

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Unauthorized: authentication required Harbor

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