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Auth store wrongly wiped on transient read errors

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #75258 on 1 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A bug where transient read errors (such as EMFILE or EACCES) are misclassified as credential store corruption, risking erasure of all stored credentials. The members address identifying and fixing this misclassification to preserve the credential store.

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  • #75258 fix(auth): a transient read failure is not corruption

    merged to main

    files: hermes_cli/auth.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_auth_store_read_failure.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2

  • #75236 fix(auth): preserve store on transient read errors · done elsewhere → #75887, #75258
  • #75887 fix(auth): preserve the credential store on transient read errors · done elsewhere → #75258, #75236, #75206
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#75206[Bug]: auth: a transient read failure (EMFILE/EACCES) is classified as corruption and returns an empty store — one save away from wiping all credentials
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