Unable to push images into the OpenShift internal registry: "Failed to push image: unauthorized: authentication required"

Issue

• During a new deployment operation using commands like oc new-app, oc start-build, etc. The following error occurs when pushing images to the registry:

Pushing image docker-registry.default.svc:5000/<project>/<image>:<tag>
error: build error: Failed to push image: unauthorized: authentication required

• The registry logs show messages like:

level=error msg="OpenShift access denied: User \"system:anonymous\" cannot update imagestreams/layers.image.openshift.io in project \"<project name>...