moby: Login command says "The handle is invalid" after inputting username

To reproduce:

docker login [repo]
Username: [type username, hit Enter]
The handle is invalid.

But this command DOES work:

docker login --username [username] --password [password] --email [email] [repo]
WARNING: login credentials saved in [blah]
Login Succeeded

So the problem might be something to do with reading from stdin?

Vague, uninformed theory: could this ReadPassword issue be related?

docker version:

Client version: 1.7.1
Client API version: 1.19
Go version (client): go1.4.2
Git commit (client): 786b29d
OS/Arch (client): windows/amd64
Server version: 1.7.0
Server API version: 1.19
Go version (server): go1.4.2
Git commit (server): 0baf609
OS/Arch (server): linux/amd64

docker info:

Containers: 3
Images: 76
Storage Driver: aufs
 Root Dir: /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Dirs: 82
 Dirperm1 Supported: true
Execution Driver: native-0.2
Logging Driver: json-file
Kernel Version: 4.0.5-boot2docker
Operating System: Boot2Docker 1.7.0 (TCL 6.3); master : 7960f90 - Thu Jun 18 18:31:45 UTC 2015
CPUs: 8
Total Memory: 1.955 GiB
Name: boot2docker
ID: 3NB7:ICRC:QASK:SOLS:X5SQ:FWNP:LSL7:LGPP:FNE3:SO5H:MKPB:INIS
Debug mode (server): true
File Descriptors: 26
Goroutines: 47
System Time: 2015-08-03T21:45:53.563558526Z
EventsListeners: 0
Init SHA1:
Init Path: /usr/local/bin/docker
Docker Root Dir: /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker

uname -a:

MINGW64_NT-6.3 mdnbepps 2.1.0(0.288/5/3) 2015-06-28 18:57 x86_64 Msys

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 35 (15 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Merge pull request #18 from trackpadpro/dev the error that remains appears to be a choice of shell/go functions moby/moby#15272 moby/moby#17738 golang/go#11914 — committed to trackpadpro/tppsss by trackpadpro 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

It looks like this is specific to the password field…?? Username is accepted in prompt or long form. email is accepted in prompt or long form. Password seems to be where it chokes.

But it worked for me using winpty.

$ docker login
Username: tcrockett
The handle is invalid.

$ docker login --username tcrockett
The handle is invalid.

$ docker login --username tcrockett --password xxxxxx
Email: xxx@yyy.com
WARNING: login credentials saved in C:\Users\tcrockett\.docker\config.json
Login Succeeded

$ winpty docker login --username tcrockett
Password:
WARNING: login credentials saved in C:\Users\tcrockett\.docker\config.json
Login Succeeded


$ docker version
Client:
 Version:      1.10.2
 API version:  1.22
 Go version:   go1.5.3
 Git commit:   c3959b1
 Built:        Mon Feb 22 22:37:33 2016
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.10.2
 API version:  1.22
 Go version:   go1.5.3
 Git commit:   c3959b1
 Built:        Mon Feb 22 22:37:33 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

tcrockett1138 on Mar 9, 2016

Having the same issue here.

As workaround I did

docker-machine ssh <your_machine> docker login <your_private_repo>

And then copied the persisted credentials in ~/.docker/config.json to my host machine (windows).

docker pull <your_private_repo>/<some_image> Works as expected afterwards.

hschaeidt on Oct 28, 2015