After changing domain password, couldn't connect to TFS and no option to re-enter credentials
Just upgraded VS 2017 to 15.4.2. I had changed my domain password earlier in the day, and when I attempted to connect to a TFS 2015-hosted git repository on our hosted TFS instance (which requires windows authentication), I received a "You are not authorized to connect to this resource" error, and no option to re-enter my credentials.
I subsequently pulled up VS 2015 and attempted the same, and it prompted me to re-enter my domain credentials, after which 2017 was fine (having taken advantage of whatever 2015 had cached, i assume), but if i hadn't had the earlier version installed, this would have been a problem.
This could be solved by having 2017 prompt you to re-enter winauth creds as required, vs the fail-without-an-option that it's doing now.
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I have the same situation this morning. I have changed my active directory password, VS2017 displayed not authorize to login but didn't prompt me to re-enter windows credential. I had switched back to VS2015 and it did prompt me to enter windows credential.
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I have the same. I think is a big problem, because I can't work with vs 2017. It's not normal, that I need to install again vs2015 to make my work.
Is this an issue with work items, TFVC, Git, or a combination? Does the issue happen on the "Team Explorer - Connect" page?
J Wyman: correct...was on the "Team Explorer - Connect" page. I did not try work items, but i can verify it happened with both a tfs-hosted git repo and a tfvc instance on our in-house hosted TFS 2015 instance (which requires winauth).
@Jesse MacNett a number of TE -> TFS authentication issues were corrected in 15.5. Is it possible for you to update to the latest VS update and check to see if the fixes resolved your issue or not?
Changed my domain password again this morning (I'm on VS 15.5.5), and still had to manually clear my credentials.
Clear the config from C:\users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VS\15.0_45658311\TeamExplorer
Does the solution for https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/151627/tf30063-you-are-not-authorized-to-access-after-pas.html resolve your issue @Jesse MacNett ?
Per the original description, I had already worked around the problem on the day in question; the solution in the link you provided is just another workaround. I submitted this as a bug because VS 2015 was able to successfully handle the transition, but 2017 couldn't.
I am getting the same issue in 15.7.4. Trying to sync with a Git repo on TFS after changing my Windows/AD password yesterday. "Authentication failed" message in the Output window but no way to refresh the password. Connecting to the TFS project in Solution Explorer appears to work still though. Removing the credentials from Credential Manager then allows the login prompt to appear.
Everyone, we believe we may have tracked this down to a timing issue between Visual Studio and Windows DPAPI. Anyone experiencing this issues, please...
- Open Visual Studio
- Select the Visual Studio Command Window
- Run
Tfs.tfc trace /keywords:Authentication=4,Authorization=4,ConnectDialog=4 /start /logfile:"<path_to_write_log_file.txt>" - Reproduce the issue.
- Select the Visual Studio Command Window
- Run
Tfs.tfc trace /stop
Once you have the trace log, sharing it here would be very helpful.
Thanks!
I don't have access to Windows Credential Manager so I had to open a command prompt and list the stored credentials with this command:
cmdkey /list
Then I deleted the credentials corresponding to the git server from that list with:
cmdkey /delete:serverNameCopiedFromListCommand
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I've just had the same issue and this is correct solution for this issue. Multiple restarts did not help at all, you have to either remove or update those credentials.
Thanks a lot, that helped!
Still seems to be an issue in VS 15.8.4.
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Until Microsoft gets their act together and fixes this, that's the simplest workaround that has worked for me.
This workaround worked for me as well, but I'm not impresses by MS, having known about this issue for three months and not fixing it.
Thanks for this work-around, I can't believe this still isn't fixed. Previously the VS 2017 UI locked up at startup when your p/w was changed, I guess this is better than that, but not much.
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this definitely works but VS should just re-prompt you for your creds instead of failing I think
I am using TFS/Git, after change my Windows password, and try to clone a new project appears this error: Git failed with a fatal error. Authentication failed. But later after update password in my Git Windows Credential works ok.
To be clear, that workaround has been well-documented here for awhile; we are primarily interested in them fixing the behavior in VS itself at this point.
