docker login: error storing credentials `The stub received bad data.`

First, I installed AWS-CLI and I already used "AWS configure" to set up my secret key and I also used "Docker login" command to log in and I got success and when I typed Get-ECRLoginCommand. It works and returns the result for me.

But when I try to use the command :

(Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 837859123533.dkr.ecr.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/spring-boot

I got an error that looks like this:

> Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `The stub received bad data.``

Both solutions worked for me, delete file C: \ Program Files \ Docker \ Docker \ resources \ bin \ docker-credential-desktop.exe and C: \ Program Files \ Docker \ Docker \ resources \ bin \ docker-credential-wincred. exe and delete {"credsStore": "...."} then my structure is as follows in the config.json file

{
"auths": {
"Account_AWS.dkr.ecr.Region_AWS.amazonaws.com": {
"auth": "My token"
}
},
"HttpHeaders": {
"User-Agent": "Docker-Client / 19.03.13 (windows)"
},
"stackOrchestrator": "swarm"
}

As of today's date, this issue still persists. Below are the things I discovered-

1.) This problem shows up while using SSOs for authentication. I am using Azure SSO for AWS.(

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2.) The reason is- The token returned from SSOs is long enough(more than 2550 characters) where as windows credential manager does not support such long tokens.

3.) If you use ECR credential helper (

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However, I followed these steps as a workaround & I'm on Windows-

1.) Remove/Rename the `"docker-credential-wincred.exe"` file located in `"C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin"` directory.

2.) Remove the `"credStore"` & `"credsStore"` keys from the docker config(`C:\Users\PROFILE_NAME\.docker\config.json`).

I get the following response-

WARNING! Your password will be stored unencrypted in C:\Users\sandeep.kumar\.docker\config.json.
Configure a credential helper to remove this warning. See

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Login Succeeded

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As @Ethan Davis mentioned, **removing** the following files helped me:

- `C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin\docker-credential-desktop.exe`
- `C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin\docker-credential-wincred.exe`

**Edit:** Also see Ethan Davis's solution:

> I found that removing C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin\docker-credential-desktop.exe and C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin\docker-credential-wincred.exe worked for me. – Ethan Davis Sep 29 '20 at 18:10

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**Original:** The solution [linked by Joelster's comment](

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> One quick workaround is to modify <User folder>\.docker\config.json file. **Remove the following line** so docker will use file system to store tokens:

> "credsStore": "wincred"


I opened the file `c:\Users\sashoalm\.docker\config.json`, and I deleted the "credsStore" key. After that this worked:

type pass.txt | docker login -u AWS --password-stdin

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And the output was this:

WARNING! Your password will be stored unencrypted in C:\Users\sashoalm\.docker\config.json.
Configure a credential helper to remove this warning. See

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Login Succeeded

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solution helps on Mac-os : `mv ~/.docker ~/.docker.bak`

Fixed by just deleted "credsStore": "desktop" in config.json file.

With the most recent version of Docker `amazon-ecr-credential-helper` is installed alongside it.

So you only need to activate it by modifying your `config.json` file, found in `%userprofile%/.docker/config.json` or `~/.docker/config.json`.

Set the contents of your `config.json` to be:

```
{
"credsStore": "ecr-login"
}
```

Alternatively you can also set the contents to:
```
{
"auths": {
"XXXXXXXXXXXX.dkr.ecr.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com": {
"auth": ""
}
}
}
```
(Where XXXXXXXXXXXX is the AWS Account number, ap-east-1 is the region of choice, and auth is left blank).

Now if you repeat the `docker login --username AWS XXXXXXXXXXXX.dkr.ecr.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com` then it will succeed this time.


The full instructions can be found on Amazon's [amazon-ecr-credential-helper](

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Nothing worked for me, so I installed the Amazon ECR Docker Credential Helper, so you do not need to `docker login` at all.

choco install amazon-ecr-credential-helper

Place the docker-credential-ecr-login binary on your PATH and set the contents of your ~/.docker/config.json file to be:

{
"credsStore": "ecr-login"
}

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Edit: In Windows you can download the `amazon-ecr-credential-helper` from here

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and install it as described here:

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