Firebase-tools: Error: HTTP Error: 401

[DrkCore]

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools:
6.3.1

Platform:
Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-141-generic x86_64)

[REQUIRED] Test case

Unable to init functions and deploy any functions while having my account logged in. Here are some logs:

λ ~/code/android/CoreWriter/ master* firebase login
Already logged in as [email protected]

λ ~/code/android/CoreWriter/ master* firebase init      

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     ######    ##  ########  ######   ########  #########  ######  ######
     ##        ##  ##    ##  ##       ##     ## ##     ##       ## ##
     ##       #### ##     ## ######## ########  ##     ##  ######  ########

You're about to initialize a Firebase project in this directory:

  /home/core/code/android/CoreWriter

Before we get started, keep in mind:

  * You are initializing in an existing Firebase project directory

? Which Firebase CLI features do you want to setup for this folder? Press Space to select features, then Enter to confirm your choices. Firestore: Deploy rules and create indexes for Firestore

=== Project Setup

First, let's associate this project directory with a Firebase project.
You can create multiple project aliases by running firebase use --add, 
but for now we'll just set up a default project.

i  .firebaserc already has a default project, skipping

=== Firestore Setup

Error: HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.

λ ~/code/android/CoreWriter/ master* firebase deploy --only functions

Error: HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.

Having trouble? Try firebase deploy --help

λ ~/code/android/CoreWriter/ master* firebase list

Error: HTTP Error: 401, The entered credentials were incorrect.

As you can see in the log, init, deploy and list command could not be executed and return me a Error 401.

I've tried log out and log in, re-install firebase-tools, and reboot, but none of them worked.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

1. install latest firebase-tools
2. init functions or deploy functions

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

Functions are expected to be deployed online.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

Got a Error 401 like this:

Error: HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.

[DrkCore]

The network I can use was protected ( or limited? ) by the GFW ( you may know what is that ), and firebase-tools could not work under network proxy, so I bought a VPS server which located in Los Angeles to deal with this.

As a result, I have to use firebase login --no-localhost to log in, does this matter？

[mbleigh]

No, so long as things are working now there should be no problem

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 3:19 AM DrkCore [e-mail] wrote:

The network I can use was protected ( or limited? ) by the GFW ( you may
know what is that ), and firebase-tools could not work under network proxy,
so I bought a VPS server which located in Los Angeles to deal with this.

As a result, I have to use firebase login --no-localhost to log in, does
this matter？

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No, so long as things are working now there should be no problem
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Yeah..., but the problem still exists.

Is there any solution or advisement for this situation?

[DrkCore]

OK, it was fixed somehow when I upgraded my Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. That's kind of weird, but at least it worked. Hope this may help someone who has came across with same problem with me.

[judas-christ]

For posterity, I got this error when I had an old FIREBASE_TOKEN env variable set. Seems like firebase prefers that to the normal login which is a bit counter-intuitive.

[hkokocin]

@judas-christ you actually just rescued me 👍

[erikhaddad]

In my case, I restored a system image from backup and the old FIREBASE_TOKEN that was copied over made the Firebase CLI believe that I was already logged in, thus I was getting "Error: HTTP Error: 401". Using firebase logout then firebase login, you can force the FIREBASE_TOKEN to be refreshed and the error will go away. Hope that helps!

[cnscorpions]

@erikhaddad thank you, it saves me a lot of time.

for server (linux)

# 1. login
sudo firebase login:ci --no-localhost --debug

# 2. copy auth link to your browser, and go step by step

# 3. copy authed string to console

# 4. get firebase token

# 5. init project

sudo firebase init --token firebase token

[goodryanboy]

firebase logout then firebase login it solves my problem