OpenShift Disconnected creating mirror registry and mandatory environment variables

Issue

• Syncing of registry (for example, while updating to a new release) following redhat official document fails with follow error message

oc adm release mirror -a ${LOCAL_SECRET_JSON} --from=quay.io/${PRODUCT_REPO}/${RELEASE_NAME}:${OCP_RELEASE}-${ARCHITECTURE}   --to=${LOCAL_REGISTRY}/${LOCAL_REPOSITORY} --apply-release-image-signature
info: Mirroring 109 images to mirror-host.redhat.com:5000/ocp4/openshift4 ...
mirror-host.redhat.com:5000/
  ocp4/openshift4
    blobs:
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:a1d58de198fba13b08680865f20baba74946670ecd70665d3c69eb707877c12a 1.619KiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:bb0da44cdbced801240e74437a617d4fe0e39c29cf3bbabb7f6a96d2620cfeaa 1.689KiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:0da8676ea7fb89bfb90682558c3edf2d058a881db3536a539f32c90ba13f7580 608.1KiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:e8913ff394b521ade2e6bd6e79ab0866dbd8596e36c796a0e68c422581991335 3.341MiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:6c37764d5c158dac2bf384857e5db6a67f70e81efac73c6243e93e85a4fb717d 7.859MiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:766e1c1a4e86e97b8d315359e0240da4d5a0e3c10bd789d88d06f344c4e3288e 18.5MiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release sha256:a03401a44180b6581a149376d6fd2d5bd85d938445fd5b5ad270e14ddde4937c 72.71MiB
    blobs:
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev sha256:617efbbbdbe4eeb2b966b3717f3a0410bce2f0462f09dff8284f856c38641135 631B
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev sha256:264aaa453271eaaf6bc92b521f62e38cbda4f01e1a3fbf50abdb8b466be58a64 1.676KiB
      quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev sha256:bb0da44cdbced801240e74437a617d4fe0e39c29cf3bbabb7f6a96d2620cfeaa 1.689KiB
...
    manifests:
      sha256:01b3bfcb50f573b77ccb83bc2754dda27ab9d8c338d7db6730f7cda0ae94ba3f -> 4.4.11-ironic-machine-os-downloader
      sha256:03fec3ade06855f439040f20b4a59b2753ef0b09fbd348ed9b10afa0bec45ae5 -> 4.4.11-local-storage-static-provisioner
      sha256:0452411f7d3a059dec052b10e3104f6d368271d6f80299f50d5c8fdb852bed74 -> 4.4.11-kube-etcd-signer-server
      sha256:05f8e6d1f6d516eb96e7b0a692562a8bae4648f55fd9adcc954b5e782f1bfc0d -> 4.4.11-cluster-kube-scheduler-operator
      sha256:0653f3775e17b86e020110ae60985b44c7882c883730596c1410933edcce9368 -> 4.4.11-ironic
      sha256:0ce89f309f822dcd40de2dde4d7b0dda71f2011116bb7c2645d3b583a7207595 -> 4.4.11-cluster-update-keys
...
  stats: shared=5 unique=222 size=5.484GiB ratio=0.98

phase 0:
  mirror-host.redhat.com:5000 ocp4/openshift4 blobs=227 mounts=0 manifests=109 shared=5

info: Planning completed in 20.88s
error: unable to upload blob sha256:e8913ff394b521ade2e6bd6e79ab0866dbd8596e36c796a0e68c422581991335 to mirror-host.redhat.com:5000/ocp4/openshift4: unauthorized: authentication required
error: unable to upload blob sha256:6c37764d5c158dac2bf384857e5db6a67f70e81efac73c6243e93e85a4fb717d to mirror-host.redhat.com:5000/ocp4/openshift4: unauthorized: authentication required
error: unable to upload blob sha256:a03401a44180b6581a149376d6fd2d5bd85d938445fd5b5ad270e14ddde4937c to mirror-host.redhat.com:5000/ocp4/openshift4: unauthorized: authentication required
error: unable to upload blob sha256:b01d36a9bb984bd795b99d00f5a7ece1a8e65f42496aa4784fb97c0ce71741e4 to mirror-host.redhat.com:5000/ocp4/openshift4: unauthorized: authentication required