Redis: "ERR wrong number of arguments for 'auth' command" after updating to v8

Created on 25 May 2020 · 6Comments · Source: go-redis/redis

I'm using the the parseURL function and connecting works fine when using a simple localhost connection string, but when using our production string that has username and password I get the err above.

Working fine:

info, err := redis.ParseURL("redis://localhost:6379")
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
c, err = redis.NewClient(info), nil
// err == nil

Giving error:

info, err := redis.ParseURL("redis://admin:[email protected]:4325")
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
c, err = redis.NewClient(info), nil
// err.Error() == "ERR wrong number of arguments for 'auth' command"

I'm kind of at a loss for how to proceed, so any help is appreciated!

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Vindexus

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i meet the same problem
for redis 6 and greater, nothing changes
for lesser, i fix it by setting username as "" and it works for me.

Anhui-tqhuang on 1 Jun 2020

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what is your redis version? The username is supported after 6.0.

by the way, it's dangerous to display your username and password.

flyingrx on 26 May 2020

I did some investigating and if I go back to go-redis/redis/[email protected] (which I was using previously) I do not get this error message.

If I up to 7.3.0 however, I do get this error.

Redis version is 4.0.9 on production server and 3.2.0 on development machine.

Thanks, those are just example credentials though, they aren't real :)

Vindexus on 26 May 2020

i meet the same problem
for redis 6 and greater, nothing changes
for lesser, i fix it by setting username as "" and it works for me.

Anhui-tqhuang on 1 Jun 2020

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Having the same error using the latest v8 beta of go-redis and redis v5

pcriv on 16 Jun 2020

From what I've heard the problem is that your connection string contains a fake username redis://admin:[email protected]:4325 - admin in this case. The fix is to remove username before connecting:

info, err := redis.ParseURL("redis://admin:[email protected]:4325")
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
info.Username = ""
rdb := redis.NewClient(info)