When issuing snapcraft whoami on a system without credentials or with expired ones, as a user I get an error instead of a prompt to re-authenticate: nessita@dali:~$ snapcraft whoami Store Error: whoami failed. nessita@dali:~$ export SNAPCRAFT_ENABLE_DEVELOPER_DEBUG=1 nessita@dali:~$ snapcraft whoami Starting snapcraft 4.8 from /snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/cli. configure_requests_ca: using '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' for certificate verification Candid forced: False. Candid crendendials: False. Calling https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/api/v2/tokens/whoami with params None and headers {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Authorization': None, 'User-Agent': 'snapcraft/4.8 Ubuntu/20.04 (amd64)'} Store error response: {'_content': b'{"error-list": [{"message": "The request is missing an Authorization header field containing a valid macaroon", "code": "macaroon-authorization-required", "extra": {"realm": "Developer Portal"}}]}', '_content_consumed': True, '_next': None, 'status_code': 401, 'headers': {'Date': 'Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:32:10 GMT', 'Server': 'gunicorn/19.7.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'WWW-Authenticate': 'Macaroon realm="Developer Portal"', 'Expires': 'Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:32:10 GMT', 'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate', 'X-View-Name': 'api-tokens-whoami', 'Vary': 'Accept-Language,Cookie', 'Content-Language': 'en', 'Content-Length': '196', 'X-VCS-Revision': 'b143b7791b', 'X-Request-Id': 'YLeIWn8AAQEAADi5H34AAAPd1', 'X-Cache': 'MISS from juju-08138e-prod-scasnap-xenial-4', 'X-Cache-Lookup': 'MISS from juju-08138e-prod-scasnap-xenial-4:3128', 'Via': '1.1 juju-08138e-prod-scasnap-xenial-4 (squid/3.5.12)', 'Strict-Transport-Security': 'max-age=2592000', 'Keep-Alive': 'timeout=5, max=100', 'Connection': 'Keep-Alive'}, 'raw': <urllib3.response.HTTPResponse object at 0x7f8439ce8f60>, 'url': 'https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/api/v2/tokens/whoami', 'encoding': 'utf-8', 'history': [], 'reason': 'Unauthorized', 'cookies': <RequestsCookieJar[]>, 'elapsed': datetime.timedelta(0, 0, 932062), 'request': <PreparedRequest [GET]>, 'connection': <requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter object at 0x7f8439ce82b0>} Sorry, an error occurred in Snapcraft: Store Error: whoami failed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/bin/snapcraft", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('snapcraft==4.8', 'console_scripts', 'snapcraft')()) File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/cli/store.py", line 840, in whoami account = StoreClientCLI().whoami().account File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/storeapi/_store_client.py", line 97, in whoami return self.dashboard.whoami() File "/snap/snapcraft/6512/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/storeapi/_dashboard_api.py", line 367, in whoami raise errors.GeneralStoreError(message="whoami failed.", response=response) snapcraft.storeapi.errors.GeneralStoreError: Store Error: whoami failed. You can find the traceback in file '/tmp/tmpsgqh5y34/trace.txt'.