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Former Member
3 years ago

Arch: Unable to read secrets

I started by attempting to read a secret with regular secret reference format, copied out of the app and pasted into my .bashrc. However I get the following error:


[ERROR] 2023/07/24 05:23:54 could not read secret op://Lab/LabToken/credential: error initializing client: Validation: (failed to session.DecodeSACredentials), Server: (failed to DecodeSACCredentials), failed to parseToken, format is invalid

Interestingly enough I actually also get this error when attempting to run op whoami


❯ op whoami
[ERROR] 2023/07/24 05:23:07 failed to DecodeSACCredentials: failed to parseToken, format is invalid

Not sure what's going on here, any help would be appreciated

1Password Version: 8.10.8
Extension Version: 2.11
OS Version: archlinux 6.4.4
Browser: Firefox

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7 Replies

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    Hi @click94, you can prefix the OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT before your op CLI command like so:

    OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=value op vault ls

    Or, you can export OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=value and within the same shell session, run a op CLI command and it'd use the Service Account token.

    I hope that helps, but feel free to followup if you have any questions! Preferably as a new forum topic if it's a long one. :)

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    hi @ArunV1P i'm currently running into this while testing secrets automation. i unset that environment variable OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT, quit terminal, reopened and logged into my account with op signin. but how can i successfully use OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT as an env variable? thanks

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    Sorry, I missed that part. Running op signin did fix it. Thank you!

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    To confirm, did you sign into your 1Password account with op signin after unsetting the OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT token?

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    Hi @ArunV1P

    I attempted unsetting the token, but it didn't make any difference. Both commands still fail with the same error.

    Thanks!
    Shahab

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    3 years ago

    Hi @shahab96, that could happen if you have the environment variable OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT set with an incorrect token.

    Could you unset that environment variable, log into your account with op signin and then try whoami or the secret reference?

    There's definitely scope for us to improve this messaging, so I'll track this internally. Thank you for surfacing this!