Cannot login to Docker account

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 Server
Docker 18.3 CE

I am logged onto the server, from my Windows 10 laptop, using a PuTTY SSH session.

I don't have Docker on my local Windows laptop, so all the work is done on the remote server.

I can execute all Docker commands, on the remote server, using the terminal session.

However, when I try to save my image to the Docker hub, when I try to login, using:

docker login

I get the following error message:

error getting credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files`

I did not get any error messages, when I created my image on the remote server.

I also do not see a .docker folder in the related home directory on the remote server. Any ideas?

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.

Simple solution: just remove "credsStore": "secretservice" from ~/.docker/config.json

This work for me in my Ubuntu 18:

docker logout
mv ~/.docker/config.json ~/.docker/config_old.json
docker login

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.

I just deleted the ~/.docker/config.json and try the login again. It works. A new file is created.

I had this problem (headless Ubuntu 20, upgraded from 16,18) and none of the other answers worked for me. Finally, after reading some of the discussions posted here I found the problem was that the gnome-keyring was installed but not working properly. Since this was a headless, the correct answer was to remove gnome-keyring (since it was providing the org.freedesktop.secrets service) and then it worked perfectly.

sudo apt remove gnome-keyring golang-docker-credential-helpers

Well you already read solution but the fact is gnupg2 is now not installed by default in Ubuntu 18+, That is the reason sometime after apt upgrade , things behave a little differently.

The problem for me were solved by running the script with sudo!

sudo docker login -u YOU-USERNAME

Just Try it: sudo apt install golang-docker-credential-helpers

Following the answer I had the several issues.

1. The key generation was stuck at entropy (step 5.2).

Fortunately, the fix is easy and you only need to install the package rng-tools: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32941065

2. On pass init <key> (step 5.3) the error gpg: decryption failed: No secret key showed up.

In fact this issue is due to the secret key being restricted to root privileges.

I changed the ownership of the .gnupg .password-store folders in my user's homedir.

Then reloaded the dirmngr to avoid "unsafe ownership" warning:

gpgconf --kill dirmngr

If you don't want to do all that you can run all commands of the answer as root/sudo.

You don't have a credentials store. Try using Gnome Keyring; depending on your linux installation, it might already be installed. You can use GK to securely store auth data in Chrom{e,ium} (and probably more) too. Getting back to Docker, you'd need a .docker/config.json like:

{
    "credsStore": "secretservice"
}

Then, make sure you've configured PAM to unlock the keyring: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#PAM_method

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass wasn't working for me and I was using docker without adding sudo in front everytime. So I added sudo docker login -u <myusername> it prompted me the pass and this time it worked since I used sudo for my docker.

creating the following solved it for me:

AWS_CONFIG=$AWS_DIR/config
AWS_CREDENTIALS=$AWS_DIR/credentials
mkdir -p $AWS_DIR

In my case, this error was resolved after giving read and write access to all users to the file /var/run/docker.sock:

sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

Install the following Packages in ubuntu

sudo apt install gnupg2 pass

This is worked for me.