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docker login error saving credentials: error storing credential The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files #7148
Description
Description
Cannot login to the container registry :
id12345@ubuntu2204 ~ $ docker login docker.artifactory.mycompany.com
Username: id12345
Password:
error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files`
Reproduce
- logout ( docker logout docker.artifactory.mycompany.com)
- login ( docker login docker.artifactory.mycompany.com)
Expected behavior
- authentication succeeds
- the credentials are stored into ~/.docker/config.json
docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 29.7.1
API version: 1.55
Go version: go1.26.5
Git commit: e9452d6
Built: Fri Jul 31 17:07:31 2026
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default
Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 29.7.1
API version: 1.55 (minimum version 1.40)
Go version: go1.26.5
Git commit: c5b8ce9
Built: Fri Jul 31 17:07:31 2026
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: v2.2.6
GitCommit: 11ce9d5f3c68c941867e82890e93e815c1304f1b
runc:
Version: 1.3.6
GitCommit: v1.3.6-0-g491b69ba
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0docker info
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 29.7.1
Context: default
Debug Mode: false
Plugins:
buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
Version: v0.36.0
Path: /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
Version: v5.3.1
Path: /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
Server:
Containers: 10
Running: 10
Paused: 0
Stopped: 0
Images: 12
Server Version: 29.7.1
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Using metacopy: false
Native Overlay Diff: true
userxattr: false
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: systemd
Cgroup Version: 2
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
CDI spec directories:
/etc/cdi
/run/cdi
Discovered Devices:
cdi: nvidia.com/gpu=all
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 11ce9d5f3c68c941867e82890e93e815c1304f1b
runc version: v1.3.6-0-g491b69ba
init version: de40ad0
Security Options:
seccomp
Profile: builtin
cgroupns
Kernel Version: 6.18.33.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 8
Total Memory: 9.713GiB
Name: ubuntu2204
ID: 84dff749-cac8-4593-9f58-d7deffd81138
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode: false
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8
::1/128
Live Restore Enabled: false
Firewall Backend: iptables
EnableUserlandProxy: true
UserlandProxyPath: /usr/bin/docker-proxyAdditional Info
Workaround consists in adding credentials manually (not plain text but BASE64 encoded) :
echo -n 'id12345:YOUR_PASSWORD' | base64 -w0
and
cat > ~/.docker/config.json <<EOF
{
"auths": {
"docker.artifactory.mycompany.com": {
"auth": "BASE64_VALUE"
},
"docker-public.artifactory.mycompany.com": {
"auth": "BASE64_VALUE"
}
}
}
EOF
Activity
thaJeztah commentedon Aug 3, 2026
This looks to be related to the credentials-helper that's used the secretservice (
docker-credential-secretservice) does not work in a headless setup, and requires a D-Bus connection;As alternative is to use the
passcredentials-helpr (docker-credential-pass), which usespassfor storing credentials (but this requirespassto be initialized for use).docs: note docker login secrets service failures on Linux