Error response from daemon: Get "https://ghcr.io/v2/": denied: denied

Question

While using with the GitHub action I am getting Error response from daemon: Get "https://ghcr.io/v2/": denied: denied

I used the login command echo $CR_PAT | docker login ghcr.io -u $ghcr_user -password-stdin

Neb

Answer 1

I believe the command you want should be:

echo "$CR_PAT" | docker login ghcr.io -u "$ghcr_user" --password-stdin

That adds quoting to the variables and a second dash to the long arg. It also assumes those variables are defined.

That said, I tend to use the following in GitHub Actions for doing the login:

​    - ​name​: ​Login to GHCR 
​      ​uses​: ​docker/login-action@v1  
​      ​with​: 
​        ​registry​: ​ghcr.io 
​        ​username​: ​${{ secrets.GHCR_USERNAME }} 
​        ​password​: ​${{ secrets.GHCR_TOKEN }}

Mistakable

Answer 2

You may try logout and then login. Or even removing the docker credentials (at ~/.docker/config.json in Linux) and then trying to login again.

This resolved the issue for me and many others

Anatol

Answer 3

What worked for me was this

docker login --username MY_GITHUB_USERNAME --password-stdin
[paste value of $CR_PAT here]

Garb

Answer 4

I forgot to run docker login as sudo.

sudo docker login ghcr.io -u Nevah5

Hamza

Answer 5

Instead of using echo $CR_PAT | docker login ghcr.io -u $ghcr_user --password-stdin use

docker login ghcr.io -u $ghcr_user -p $CR_PAT

Neb

Using -p via the CLI is insecure. Should use --password-stdin instead. – Briney