WRONGPASS invalid username-password pair

Issue

Hi, I wish I had more time to fill this out but I’m making this for others who are having this issue. Our Node applications started crashing on startup when we updated (without realizing) to 3.1.0. Thankfully this only happened on our stage servers so no harm was done! But hopefully, others find this helpful!

The error is as follows

ReplyError: WRONGPASS invalid username-password pair
    at parseError (redacted.../node_modules/redis/node_modules/redis-parser/lib/parser.js:179:12)
    at parseType (redacted.../node_modules/redis/node_modules/redis-parser/lib/parser.js:302:14) {
  command: 'AUTH',
  args: [ 'redacted', 'redacted' ],
  code: 'WRONGPASS'
}

The username-password pair is correct and works before 3.1.0 to fix this for now we downgraded to 3.0.2

Environment

Node.js Version: 14.15.4

Redis Version: Unkown (I can add once I find out)

Platform: MacOS 11.0.1, Heroku Node, Arch Linux

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:30 (1 by maintainers)

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leibalecommented, Apr 2, 2021

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

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nbasilicommented, Apr 7, 2021

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.