receive This error "unauthorized: Invalid clientid or client secret." while trying to run Pipeline

Question

receive This error "unauthorized: Invalid clientid or client secret." while trying to run Pipeline

Answer 1

The issue that generates this service principal alert usually occurs for one of the following reasons:

• The client secret expired.
• Incorrect credentials were provided.
• The service principal doesn't exist within the Microsoft Entra ID tenant of the subscription.

Please verifiy the above. To do this:

Go to Azure Portal > Entra> App registrations

Find the app (by Client ID)

Go to Certificates & Secrets and confirm the secret exists or it has correct permissions

az ad app credential list --id "$SP_ID"

To check the service principal.

Once this is confirmed You need to add the new secret you created in entra id to the service connection in azure devops

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Please note: If you have Priority Community support please wait for a dedicated Microsoft support representative to assist you, as they have access to the necessary backend resources.

Regards,

Abiola

Answer 2

Hi Alaa Farouk,

Run the following command to verify if the service principal password is correct: Verify and correct the password of service principal.

az login --service-principal --username $sp_id --password $sp_secret --tenant $ten_id

You can also try changing to a new service connection.

For your reference: Pull and Push Docker Image task to ACR fails in Azure Devops Pipeline "unauthorized: Invalid clientid or client secret."

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.