Question

DOCTL "Access Token is Required" even after initializing

Posted on April 5, 2020
API
Asked by aaronmweiss

Just installed DOCTL on my Raspberry Pi. I have performed doctl auth ini and verified my API Token.

Yet, when I run my script, I get the following:

Error: unable to initialize DigitalOcean api client: access token is required. (hint: run 'doctl auth init')

I created a new API Key just to be safe and I get the same issue.

However, if I run something as simple as doctl compute snapshot list or /snap/bin/doctl compute snapshot list I get the expected list of my snapshots with no error message.

I’m using this same script on a few different Ubuntu 18.06 LTS and a previous Pi installation. Can’t seem to figure out where I’m going wrong.

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Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• April 6, 2020

Accepted Answer

Hi there @aaronmweiss,

It sounds like that your script might be running as a different user, for example you’ve authenticated as your default pi user but the script is executed as the root user.

I would recommend adding doctl auth init in the beginning of your script and running it like that 1 time so that you are sure that the user the script runs as has actually authenticated.

Let me know how it goes. Regards, Bobby

alex • August 24, 2024

I’m new to doctl and I’m facing a similar error apparently:

 % doctl version
doctl version 1.111.0-release

 % doctl auth init
Using token for context default

Validating token... ✔

 % doctl apps create -c app.yaml
Error: Unable to initialize DigitalOcean API client: access token is required. (hint: run 'doctl auth init')