Error: failed to list buckets: 401 Unauthorized: unauthorized access

InfluxDB 2
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Hi, I downloaded and installed influxDB 2, I was able to access the GUI and create a user and org as well as a bucket. However, in powershell, when I issue the following command

.\influx.exe bucket list --org-id 87e217ef3c4bb714
I get the following error

Error: failed to list buckets: 401 Unauthorized: unauthorized access

What authorization needed and how I can authorize/grant access, knowing that when I see the log when I start influxDB, it uses my windomain\user

2021-12-01T18:08:40.029578Z info Welcome to InfluxDB {“log_id”: “0Y9nnGNG000”, “version”: “2.1.1”, “commit”: “657e1839de”, “build_date”: “2021-11-09T03:03:48Z”}
2021-12-01T18:08:40.378440Z info Resources opened {“log_id”: “0Y9nnGNG000”, “service”: “bolt”, “path”: “C:\Users\salam.SALAM\.influxdbv2\influxd.bolt”}
2021-12-01T18:08:40.378440Z info Resources opened {“log_id”: “0Y9nnGNG000”, “service”: “sqlite”, “path”: “C:\Users\salam.SALAM\.influxdbv2\influxd.sqlite”}
…
…
and somewhere else I have in the screen log

2021-12-01T18:47:36.098671Z info Unauthorized {“log_id”: “0Y9nnGNG000”, “error”: “token required”}
2021-12-01T18:47:54.475921Z info Unauthorized {“log_id”: “0Y9nnGNG000”, “error”: “token required”}
2021-12-01T18:48:12.669764Z info Unauthorized {“log_id”: “0Y9nnGNG000”, “error”: “token required”}

From where or how the user log_id": “0Y9nnGNG000” was created and what is its role, I don’t see it in the users tab in the GUI

At the same time (I have grafana and influx running on the same box), and after following instructions to add a data source in grafana using FLUX at

It never succeeds and get " Error reading influx""

influxErrReading
influxErrReading589Ă—843 36.8 KB

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Hi @eliassal,
You need to generate a token for the organisation/buckets you are trying to speak to. Create an API token in InfluxDB | InfluxDB Cloud Documentation

Let me know if you run into any more troubles :slight_smile:

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Correct and thanks, I found the token used it on the command line and was able to connect using the following statement,

.\influx.exe bucket list --org-id 87e217ef3c4bb714 --token 9k4ZE0jyZkUFFtFhdzrg5HEdjCYWKe_…

but tell me, how can we avoid typing everytime those params?

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Use a influx config profile and set it as active:

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Why when I tried
influx bucket list --org paraqom --token MYTOKEN
that is in localhost:8086 , I managed to see list of bucket.
But when I tried the same command (influx bucket list --org paraqom --token MYTOKEN ) the token of influxdb that is in cloud https://us-east-1-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com/

It gives me this error
Error: failed to list buckets: 401 Unauthorized: unauthorized access

How to solve this problem?

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I had the same issue.
At some point, I got the error message that I am missing operator level rights.
For some reason, there was now config available, not even a default.
I ended up setting up everything from scratch.

If you can’t, try

influx config create --config-name default --host-url http://localhost:8086 --org <your org here> --active --token <your admin token here>

Also this might help: influxd recovery auth create-operator | InfluxDB OSS v2 Documentation (influxdata.com)