Getting "http error 401-unauthorized:invalid username or password error" while trying to register system
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM)
Issue
- While registering the client machine to the customer portal using the
subscription-manager register
command, it fails with the below error:
# subscription-manager register --username "xxxxxx"--password "xxxxxxxx"
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
HTTP error (401 - Unauthorized): Invalid username or password. To create a login, please visit https://www.redhat.com/wapps/ugc/register.html
- Getting
invalid username or password
while trying to register the system with RHSM.
Resolution
- To successfully register the system with subscription-manager (RHSM), blank space or hyphen must be avoided in the password.
- Reset the password, if the password contains a space in it.
To reset the password click here
Root Cause
Subscription-manager (RHSM) does not honor the value when a blank space or hyphen is added to a password, instead consider adding special characters is suggested.
Diagnostic Steps
Verify if the password contains blank space or hyphen.
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