node-redis: WRONGPASS invalid username-password pair

@darklight147 try to change the “username” to “default”

@lebseu @darklight147 are you using the default user or a custom ACL user? If you’re using the default user, make sure the set the username to “default” or just leave it empty.

@bamse16 using redis://:password@localhost:6379 should do the trick. @nbasili you should try without the username h --> redis://:<password>@<host>:<port>

Heroku deployments are broken at 3.1.0, initializing the client using:

require('redis').createClient(process.env.REDIS_URL)

where REDIS_URL is set automatically by Heroku using the format redis://h:<password>@<host>:<port>

The error is:

Uncaught ReplyError: Ready check failed: NOAUTH Authentication required.
    at parseError (/app/node_modules/redis-parser/lib/parser.js:179:12)
    at parseType (/app/node_modules/redis-parser/lib/parser.js:302:14)

This renders the latest version unusable on Heroku, everything is working fine at 3.0.2 though.

We just encountered the same issue, fortunately on the staging server. Shouldn’t it have been a major version change? I just ran npm update and boom everything broke.

I have the same issue as @darklight147. Setting the username to redis://default:password@ip or empty string redis://:password@ip does not help.

The only thing that helps is setting the connection string as redis://password@ip, no username: part.

When a username is present, even if named default, the auth command is sent as auth 'default', 'password' and redis 3.0.6 rejects that.

Edit: The error I get is: Redis connection error: ReplyError: ERR wrong number of arguments for 'auth' command..

@darklight147 until version 3.1.0 the username part was ignored, so please try to set it to “default” (or leave it empty) and check if that’s help

just installed the latest version 4.0.0 using

“URI”: "rediss://password@url:port did not work “URI”: "rediss://default:password@url:port did not work “URI”: "rediss://admin:password@url:port did not work

“URI”: "rediss://:password@url:port did work just putting : before password

is this the new behaviour ?

For anyone with an old redis installation on Heroku, this will solve the issue (node-redis 3.1.2):

                const url = new URL(process.env.REDIS_URL);
                const client = redis.createClient(Number.parseInt(url.port), url.hostname, {
                    auth_pass: url.password
                });

I’ve tried redis://:password@localhost:6379 and that works for me as well. Previously, a package that was parsing the URI would not handle empty username, so that was not related to this package.

+1 - Like @eiskalteschatten we use the heroku redis add-on so the URL is managed by them.

I’m not inclined to create a brittle solution of modifying the URL to remove the username at runtime.

This really should’ve been mentioned in the release notes.

@darklight147 try to change the “username” to “default”

Maan, thank you so muuuuch

We’re having this issue as well. Like others said, 3.0.2 resolves it for us. We’re reading the redis connection string from whatever the cloud environment gives us, which for right now is rediss://<username>:<password>@<ip>:<port>

The error we got was ‘wrong number of arguments for ‘auth’ command’.

Looks like Heroku fixed this for newly created Redis add-ons: https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1932