Glab fails with "Token was revoked"

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Thanks for taking the time to be thorough in your request, it really helps! :blush:

I do authenticate with glab auth login, by either using web or token. In both cases it fails with

error using api: GET https://gitlab.com/api/v4/user: 401 {error: invalid_token}, {error_description: Token was revoked. You have to re-authorize from the user.}

Here the details:

$glab auth login
? What GitLab instance do you want to log into? gitlab.com
- Logging into gitlab.com
!WARNING: you have GITLAB_TOKEN or OAUTH_TOKEN environment variable set. Unset if you don't want to use it for glab
? How would you like to login? Token

Tip: you can generate a Personal Access Token here https://gitlab.com/-/profile/personal_access_tokens
The minimum required scopes are 'api' and 'write_repository'.
? Paste your authentication token: **************************
? Choose default git protocol SSH
- glab config set -h gitlab.com git_protocol ssh
✓ Configured git protocol
- glab config set -h gitlab.com api_protocol https
✓ Configured API protocol
error using api: GET https://gitlab.com/api/v4/user: 401 {error: invalid_token}, {error_description: Token was revoked. You have to re-authorize from the user.}
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The access token from your profile was revoked. You need to re-create a valid token and then insert it into the GitLab CLI auth prompt.

The CLI also logs are warning

!WARNING: you have GITLAB_TOKEN or OAUTH_TOKEN environment variable set. Unset if you don’t want to use it for glab

which might have an influence.

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Yeah many thanks for the hint. Remove the env variable and now authentication works just fine

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