vscode: keep getting "You have been signed out because reading stored authentication information failed."

This link helped me.

How to fix:

1. Exit Visual Studio Code application
2. Open: Credential Manager (“Start → Settings” → then search for “Credential Manager”)
3. Click on the Windows Credentials tab.
4. Remove all credentials start with vscode.vscode, git:, ada:
5. Open Visual Studio Code application and login again. Done

https://xenvn.com/threads/vscode-fix-you-have-been-signed-out-because-reading-stored-authentication-information-failed.2584/#post-3139

Same issue on Mac OS after changing my workplace Microsoft Office 365 password. I even signed out of all Microsoft accounts and the alert still appeared on every launch of VS Code. What that looks like:

I fixed it by deleting all “vscodevscode.microsoft-authentication” entries in the login keychain.

Ahh I see what I was doing wrong. Those sessions from your password change weren’t being removed properly. Now they should be! This will be in VS Code Insiders tomorrow and VS Code stable early next month.

@jpixy on Ubuntu with gnome, there’s an app called “Passwords & Keys” and from there the steps are similar to what others have shown on macOS and Windows.

There might be a similar app on your distro… please let us know what you find

I got same issue on Linux .so how to deal with it ?

That may depend on the distro used. Gnome Wallet? KDE Wallet? Just guessing here, will give a look next time I boot into Linux

This sorted it out for Windows. Also interesting to see how many tokesn/password I needed to cleanup. Now the question is, what is the equivalent in macos, has I still have the issue there

Answering my own question, it is in Keychain Access. In Keychain Access, select ‘login’ on the left side, then you can filter on the top right search box for ‘vscode’ and just delete all entries. Sorted.

This is all great information, folks. I’m curious to know if you all get into a bad state again if you change your password once more.

When I tried, I was unable to reproduce… which leads me to believe that you all got into a bad state from a previous change I made, and that new customers won’t be affected by this.

If my theory is true, I will at least document these steps to clear the vscode specific items out of the keychain.

haha, Guess what… I tried to update my password on the device with this popup, now all my 3 devices will have this popup…