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Anonymous Caller does not have Storage Buckets Error | Resolved

If you are working with Google Cloud Storage and the gsutil tool, you may have come across this error message:

Caught non-retryable exception while listing gs://your-bucket/: ServiceException: 401 Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.list access to the Google Cloud Storage bucket.
CommandException: Caught non-retryable exception – aborting rsync

This error means that we are not authenticated. Additionally, we do not have permission to carry out the operation. Today, we are going to take a look at how to fix the gsutil 401 error and regain access to our Google Cloud Storage bucket.

The gsutil 401 Anonymous Caller error usually occurs when we are trying to run a gsutil command like gsutil rsync but do not have the proper authentication and permissions.

How to Fix the gsutil 401 Error

1. First, we have to create a service account for our Google Cloud project. We can do this by visiting the Service Account page in the Google Cloud Console.
2. Then, assign roles to the service account based on our requirements.
3. After the service account is set up, head to the details page and generate a new key for it. This action will offer us with a JSON file.
4. Next, it is time to save the JSON key file on the server or computer where we will be running gsutil commands.
5. Then, open a terminal and run this command, after replacing [path to JSON file] with the actual path to the JSON key file:

   gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file [path to JSON file]

By creating a service account, generating a key, and activating the service account with the gcloud auth command, we can resolve the gsutil 401 Anonymous Caller error and regain access to our Google Cloud Storage bucket.

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Conclusion

In brief, our Support Techs demonstrated how to fix the “ anonymous caller does not have storage buckets get access to the Google cloud storage bucket” error.