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@firmai
firmai
opened on Oct 1, 2025

What version of Codex is running?

latest

Which model were you using?

No response

What platform is your computer?

No response

What steps can reproduce the bug?

%%bash

Always grab latest Codex

npm install -g @openai/codex@latest

✅ API key authentication (fake)

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-proj-8Dvo0_nGTvHe6fffWX8xb5HhX5s5MHBLPlfEbc22uxKkdLs8A"

Quick smoke test (should not 401)

codex exec --full-auto --skip-git-repo-check --config preferred_auth_method="apikey" "echo Codex API auth OK"

anged 1 package in 3s
[2025-10-01T15:36:50] OpenAI Codex v0.42.0 (research preview)

workdir: /content
model: gpt-5-codex
provider: openai
approval: never
sandbox: workspace-write [workdir, /tmp, $TMPDIR]
reasoning effort: none
reasoning summaries: auto

[2025-10-01T15:36:50] User instructions:
echo Codex auth OK
[2025-10-01T15:36:54] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 1/5 in 208ms…
[2025-10-01T15:36:58] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 2/5 in 420ms…
[2025-10-01T15:37:02] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 3/5 in 776ms…
[2025-10-01T15:37:06] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 4/5 in 1.546s…
[2025-10-01T15:37:11] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 5/5 in 3.374s…
[2025-10-01T15:37:18] ERROR: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized
[2025-10-01T15:37:18] OpenAI Codex v0.42.0 (research preview)

workdir: /content
model: gpt-5-codex
provider: openai
approval: never
sandbox: workspace-write [workdir, /tmp, $TMPDIR]
reasoning effort: none
reasoning summaries: auto

[2025-10-01T15:37:18] User instructions:
Extract and analyze fake made up contents. Produce an HTML report with 4 creative visualizations. Save to summary_visuals.html.
[2025-10-01T15:37:21] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 1/5 in 185ms…
[2025-10-01T15:37:25] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 2/5 in 396ms…
[2025-10-01T15:37:29] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 3/5 in 801ms…
[2025-10-01T15:37:33] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 4/5 in 1.577s…
[2025-10-01T15:37:38] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 5/5 in 3.2s…
[2025-10-01T15:37:45] ERROR: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized

What is the expected behavior?

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What do you see instead?

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  1. firmai
    added
    bugSomething isn't working
    on Oct 1, 2025

  2. Aradesh3k commented on Oct 1, 2025

    @Aradesh3k
    Aradesh3k
    on Oct 1, 2025

    Getting similar issues. I think the codex authorization server is down or something.

  3. dedrisian-oai commented on Oct 2, 2025

    @dedrisian-oai
    dedrisian-oai
    on Oct 2, 2025
    Contributor

    Just to confirm, this is latest prod or alpha? Can you attach the exact version?

  4. firmai commented on Oct 2, 2025

    @firmai
    firmai
    on Oct 2, 2025
    Author

    latest prod

  5. etraut-openai
    added
    authIssues related to authentication and accounts
    on Nov 14, 2025

  6. etraut-openai commented on Dec 10, 2025

    @etraut-openai
    etraut-openai
    on Dec 10, 2025
    Contributor

    The behavior you're describing can be explained by a corrupt or incorrect API Key.

    I presume this bug report is stale, so I'm going to close.

  7. etraut-openai
    closed this as completedon Dec 10, 2025

  8. evalphobia commented on Dec 10, 2025

    @evalphobia
    evalphobia
    on Dec 10, 2025

    I struggled this issue more than 1month.

    [2025-12-10T13:17:18] User instructions:
hello
[2025-12-10T13:17:22] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 1/5 in 191ms…
[2025-12-10T13:17:26] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 2/5 in 382ms…
[2025-12-10T13:17:30] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 3/5 in 800ms…
[2025-12-10T13:17:35] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 4/5 in 1.568s…
[2025-12-10T13:17:41] stream error: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized; retrying 5/5 in 3.304s…
[2025-12-10T13:17:48] ERROR: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized

    I solved in my situation finally.

    before v0.34

    You can use OPENAI_API_KEY envvar (I used this version)

    export OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-svcacct-...'
codex exec -m "gpt-5.1-codex-mini" --full-auto "hello"

    after v0.36

    You should use codex login --api-key command explicitly,

    codex login --api-key "$OPENAI_API_KEY"
codex exec -m "gpt-5.1-codex-mini" --full-auto "hello"

    after v0.46

    Use codex login --with-api-key to follow the instruction below,
    https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/authentication.md#usage-based-billing-alternative-use-an-openai-api-key

    echo $OPENAI_API_KEY | codex login --with-api-key
codex exec -m "gpt-5.1-codex-mini" --full-auto "hello"
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