The codex cli giving: 401 unauthorized

[isha-paliwal3]

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.80.0

What subscription do you have?

chatgpt Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2 medium

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What issue are you seeing?

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019bb81c-f4d0-7992

What is the expected behavior?

Should return a proper response

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• Reconnecting... 3/5 (13s • esc to interrupt) └ Unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: #8807
• Not able to connect to codex, says "Reconnecting" #8703
• Getting 401 when logging into ChatGPT Business with SSO required #7918
• exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized #7362
• Codex CLI - Logged in with plus but - 401 unauth error - no LLM response #7107

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[etraut-openai]

It looks like you've logged out and logged back in. Is that correct? You could try deleting the auth.json file manually and then log in again, but that's unlikely to fix it.

What type of ChatGPT plan do you have? Is it a Plus subscription?

[isha-paliwal3]

It looks like you've logged out and logged back in. Is that correct? You could try deleting the auth.json file manually and then log in again, but that's unlikely to fix it.

What type of ChatGPT plan do you have? Is it a Plus subscription?

Hi @etraut-openai, yes I have a plus subscription, And I tried deleting the auth.json as well but it did not fix it

[etraut-openai]

This must be something specific to your account. Could I get your user ID? You can find it by going to https://chatgpt.com/codex, clicking on the upper right icon to show the profile menu and then clicking on your email address (top menu item). This will put your user ID on the clipboard so you can paste it here. It will be of the form "user-".

[alphaai]

I am also experiecing the same problem. user-JpFWYFj65MQ76y39JSuMrua9

[isha-paliwal3]

@etraut-openai here is my user Id can you pls check?

user-SiimSO1vjX7pcbW1JqTimawk

[peterjliu]

also having same issue.

1. on Teams plan with SAML setup to Google Workspace
2. Can log-in and use chatGPT
3. get 401 after logging into codex

[etraut-openai]

By any chance, are all of you who are experiencing the 401 error using the "log in with Google" option? Are any of you using an OpenAI account password to log in?

[peterjliu]

Yes using Google to log-in or passkey. Over the past few months I observed multiple issues with SSO and chatGPT (e.g. #3782 (comment), #5553). I think you should take a look at this seriously.

[voxmenthe]

I have this same issue. On pro plan. Using OpenAI account password to log in.
Originally had collision with port 1455 but killed that port and it allowed me to log in.
But still got 401 error after that.
Also tried deleting auth.json and re-logging in. Still 401 error.
Oddly, this authentication issue does not affect the codex app/extension in VSCode/Cursor etc.

[etraut-openai]

@voxmenthe, if you're able to repro the problem, please use the /feedback slash command to upload your logs and post the thread ID here. Are you using any firewalls, VPNs, proxies or other special network configurations?