# Error: failed to list buckets: 401 Unauthorized: unauthorized access **URL:** \ **Category:** InfluxDB 2\ **Created:** [December 2, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785 "2021-12-02T08:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eliassal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@eliassal](https://community.influxdata.com/u/eliassal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785/1 "2021-12-02T08:55:46Z")
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 > **[Bad Gateway Errors](https://community.grafana.com/t/bad-gateway-errors/15883/8)** > > Well start by getting some real world data into the database, then you will have something to put on the dashboard. It never succeeds and get " Error reading influx"" ![influxErrReading](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/2/2e99523172b9364a40a7ef675d374c7f56f584e3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785/2 "2021-12-02T11:05:53Z")
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](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud/security/tokens/create-token/) Let me know if you run into any more troubles 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eliassal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@eliassal](https://community.influxdata.com/u/eliassal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785/3 "2021-12-02T11:42:59Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Franky1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/franky1/32/6666_2.png) [@Franky1](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Franky1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785/4 "2021-12-02T11:52:57Z")
> [@eliassal](#): > > but tell me, how can we avoid typing everytime those params? Use a influx config profile and set it as active: > **[influx - InfluxDB command line interface | InfluxDB OSS v2 Documentation](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/reference/cli/influx/)** > > The influx CLI includes commands to manage many aspects of InfluxDB, including buckets, organizations, users, tasks, etc. ---
**Author:** ![fatmaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea5d25/32.png) [@fatmaj](https://community.influxdata.com/u/fatmaj)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785/5 "2023-04-16T17:58:41Z")
Why when I tried _influx bucket list --org paraqom --token MYTOKEN_ that is in [localhost:8086](http://localhost:8086/signin) , 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/](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? ---
**Author:** ![TinkerPHU](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/tinkerphu/32/15806_2.png) [@TinkerPHU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/TinkerPHU)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 9:23am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/error-failed-to-list-buckets-401-unauthorized-unauthorized-access/22785/6 "2024-06-21T09:23:05Z")
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 ```auto influx config create --config-name default --host-url http://localhost:8086 --org --active --token ``` Also this might help: [influxd recovery auth create-operator | InfluxDB OSS v2 Documentation (influxdata.com)](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/reference/cli/influxd/recovery/auth/create-operator/)