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CLI authentication fails with 401 Unauthorized after retry limit #5456
Description
Issue
The Codex CLI fails to authenticate, repeatedly returning 401 Unauthorized errors before exceeding the retry limit.
Error Output
■ exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 99210d09997d307d-SEA
■ exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized, request id: 992103f58e774224-SEA
Behavior
- CLI attempts to connect/authenticate
- Each attempt fails with 401 Unauthorized
- After 5 retry attempts, the CLI exits
- Request IDs consistently end with SEA region identifier
Expected
CLI should successfully authenticate and execute commands.
Extra Notes
- I came across this using my typical internet, I even hopped onto a VPN to see if it was somehow that being the problem, nope, same thing/errors.
Request IDs from failed attempts: 99210d09997d307d-SEA, 992103f58e774224-SEA
Activity
github-actions commentedon Oct 21, 2025
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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SystemSculpt commentedon Oct 21, 2025
This fix worked:
"Please do codex logout followed by codex login, we are investing in making this more robust in the future."
neurall commentedon Oct 25, 2025
delete OPENAI_API_BASE in env ;) I had hunch it would be the cause. Worked for me