Cannot login to Docker account

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Edit 2019-04-07:

As this is the currently selected answer, I think people should try @Anish Varghese solution below first as it seems to be the easiest. You only need to install the gnupg2 and pass packages:

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

If it doesn't work, then you can try my original solution here:

I had the same issue. bak2trak answer worked, but it saved credentials in clear text. Here's the solution if you want to keep them in a password store.

1) Download docker-credential-pass from https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases

2) tar -xvf docker-credential-pass.tar.gz

3) chmod u+x docker-credential-pass

4) mv docker-credential-pass /usr/bin

5) You will need to setup docker-credential-pass (following steps are based of https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/issues/102#issuecomment-388634452)

5.1) install gpg and pass (apt-get install gpg pass)

5.2) gpg --generate-key, enter your information. You should see something like this:

pub   rsa3072 2018-10-07 [SC] [expires: 2020-10-06]
      1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF12345678

Copy the 123... line

5.3) pass init 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF12345678 (paste)

5.4) pass insert docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check and set the next password "pass is initialized" (without quotes).

5.5) pass show docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check. You should see pass is initialized.

5.6) docker-credential-pass list

6) create a ~/.docker/config.json with:

{
"credsStore": "pass"
}

7) docker login should now work

Note: If you get the error "pass store is uninitialized" in future run, run the below command (it will reload the pass store in memory):

pass show docker-credential-helpers/docker-pass-initialized-check

It will ask your password and it will initialize the pass store.

This is based off this discussion: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/25169#issuecomment-431129898

Install the following Packages in ubuntu fixed my issue

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

I faced the same issue in ubuntu 18.08 and this finally worked for me.. as a temporary solution.

I had created this folder home/.docker/ as some solutions suggested me to create a file config.json and write default credentials in it i.e.

{
    "credsStore": "pass"
}

• I deleted this file config.json.

• Then renamed docker-credential-secretservice to something else so that it doesn't picks up this file.

  sudo mv /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice_x

and it worked!

This may help too, at least it did in Ubuntu 20.04:

wget https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases/download/v0.6.3/docker-credential-secretservice-v0.6.3-amd64.tar.gz && tar -xf docker-credential-secretservice-v0.6.3-amd64.tar.gz && chmod +x docker-credential-secretservice && mv docker-credential-secretservice /usr/local/bin/

https://hackernoon.com/getting-rid-of-docker-plain-text-credentials-88309e07640d  https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/releases

If apt install gnupg2 pass does not work for you, you can also install golang-docker-credential-helpers package

For me the simplest solution was to create config.json file under .docker directory inside user home directory:

/home/.docker/config.json

Then i copied the content of this file from the server from where i was able to login to the docker hub.

{
        "auths": {
                "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
                        "auth": "SOMEVALUE"
                }
        },
        "HttpHeaders": {
                "User-Agent": "Docker-Client/18.06.1-ce (linux)"
        }

}

Its a easy workaround, because it doesn't require you to install or update any package which we can't do easily on production servers.

For me docker push failed with

denied: requested access to the resource is denied

... so I wanted to docker login but got the following after entering credentials:

Remote error from secret service:
  org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod:
  No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path
  /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login

Error saving credentials:
  error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out:
  No such interface 'org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection' on object at path
  /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login

Luckily, I had another machine available on which I was able to log in without any changes to the system. I copied the content of ~/.docker/config.json...

{
        "auths": {
                "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
                        "auth": "<some-hash-value>"
                }
        },
        "HttpHeaders": {
                "User-Agent": "Docker-Client/18.09.2 (linux)"
        }
}

... to the other machine and docker push worked.