How to Easily Solve the Redis NOAUTH Authentication Required

Redis NOAUTH authentication required is an error that occurs when attempting to authenticate with the Redis server. The Redis connection is secured in such a way that any client making a connection must authenticate before executing any command.

Let say you run the command redis-cli to perform some operations on your Redis database. To test you are connected and can perform commands, you will run.

$ PING

Unfortunately, you will get the error message below.

(error) NOAUTH Authentication required.

To bypass this error, you will need to provide your Redis password defined when you configured your database for the first time, using this command.

$ AUTH "your-redis-password"

If your password is correct, you should be able to use the following JSON.SET command in redis-cli to test that everything is ok.

[127.0.0.1:6379]> json.set book $ '{ "name": "Harry Potter" }'
OK

[127.0.0.1:6379]> json.get book
"{\"name\":\"Harry Potter\"}"

The error Redis NOAUTH authentication required occurs when attempting to authenticate with the Redis server. This post shows you how to bypass this limitation by using your Redis password.