# Renovate tutorial permission error

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/renovate-tutorial-permission-error/9210>\
**Category:** Actions\
**Created:** [May 28, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/renovate-tutorial-permission-error/9210 "2024-05-28T00:42:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/renovate-tutorial-permission-error/9210/1 "2024-05-28T00:42:26Z")

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Hi,  
I followed the below renovate tutorial:

> **[Use Gitea and Renovate bot to automatically monitor software packages](https://about.gitea.com/resources/tutorials/use-gitea-and-renovate-bot-to-automatically-monitor-software-packages)**
>
> It's very important to upgrade your open source dependencies

And get the following error:

```auto
DEBUG: Error authenticating with Gitea. Check your token
...
"url": "http://xxx.com:3000/api/v1/user",
...
FATAL: Authentication failure
...

```

I tried to put the interesting parts to pinpoint the problem, if stack trace are not enough I can provide more.

So according to the error the Token is not correct.

So what I tried so far as mentioned in the Renovate doc is to put the correct scope and permission as listed there (this part is missing in the gitea tutorial):

> **[Gitea and Forgejo - Renovate Docs](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/platform/gitea/)**
>
> Renovate documentation.

But even with all this permission and even more I still get the error.

I also try to access directly with postman to the user endpoint with the generated Token and here I have no problem the user data are returned so it should not be networking or typo.

I tried a lot of different pattern until give full access to the renovate bot but still have the same error.

So I’m stuck I don’t really know what more to try, any tip or advice can be really helpful. I thought it will be a strait forward tutorial but I stuck on a basic authorization error, it’s really frustrating.