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Chris Wong 16 invalid client id when attempting OAuth Authentication with Username-Password Flow
Hi, I am new to Salesforce, so thanks for any help
I am trying to connect my application to the Salesforce REST API. I have a Ruby app so I am using Restforce (https://github.com/restforce/restforce). I'm attempting to use the Username/Password authentication which I believe is the same as the Session ID Authorization described here https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_understanding_username_password_oauth_flow.htm
I created a new Connected Appin the Salesforce Setup App Manager. I clicked enable OAuth settings and selected Full Access as the Oauth scope.
But when attempting the authentication I am receiving an error:
{"error":"invalid_client_id","error_description":"client identifier invalid"}
I’m using my personal salesforce account’s username, password and security token. I am using the Connected App's Consumer Key as the Client ID and Consumer Secret as the Client Secret
This happens both when using Restforce or when manually calling curl https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token -d "grant_type=password" ...
I'm pretty sure I'm copying/pasting the correct value of Consumer Key into Client ID.
Did I miss a step when setting up my Connected App? Could the error message mean something else?
Thank you for any help or suggestions!
I am trying to connect my application to the Salesforce REST API. I have a Ruby app so I am using Restforce (https://github.com/restforce/restforce). I'm attempting to use the Username/Password authentication which I believe is the same as the Session ID Authorization described here https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_understanding_username_password_oauth_flow.htm
I created a new Connected Appin the Salesforce Setup App Manager. I clicked enable OAuth settings and selected Full Access as the Oauth scope.
But when attempting the authentication I am receiving an error:
{"error":"invalid_client_id","error_description":"client identifier invalid"}
I’m using my personal salesforce account’s username, password and security token. I am using the Connected App's Consumer Key as the Client ID and Consumer Secret as the Client Secret
This happens both when using Restforce or when manually calling curl https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token -d "grant_type=password" ...
I'm pretty sure I'm copying/pasting the correct value of Consumer Key into Client ID.
Did I miss a step when setting up my Connected App? Could the error message mean something else?
Thank you for any help or suggestions!
Greetings to you!
Make sure you have white-listed salesforce IP:
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000321501&type=1&mode=1 (https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000321501&type=1&mode=1)
http://http://www.salesforcegeneral.com/salesforce-articles/ip-whitelists-for-salesforce.html (http://http://www.salesforcegeneral.com/salesforce-articles/ip-whitelists-for-salesforce.html)
Please refer to the below links which might help you further with the above issue.
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/93007/oauth2-token-request-failing
https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=906F00000009ABLIA2
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/179731/invalid-client-id
I hope it helps you.
Kindly let me know if it helps you and close your query by marking it as solved so that it can help others in the future. It will help to keep this community clean.
Thanks and Regards,
Khan Anas
I am not practicing IP whitelisting from my network, so I do not think that is the issue.
I've looked into the other links and I don't think I have the same issues as them as I do not have the same mistakes with client_id vs clientId or having special characters in my password.
I will note that the Consumer Key has multiple periods (.) but that is consistent with what other users have pasted for their own consumer keys.
For the username/password I'm using my own personal credentials and I'm pasting screenshots of the oauth settings from my connected app that I created. Is there anything I need to do to connect my personal user to be able to do the Oauth authentication with the new connected app?
From the manage page:
and the view page (blacked out consumer key just in case):
Thank you for looking into it!
App Manager -> Manage -> Edit Policies