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auth/insufficient-permission

insufficient permission

What does this code mean?

Code auth/insufficient-permission · An issue reported by Firebase Authentication Admin SDK.

Official explanation · Original text

The credential used to initialize the Admin SDK has insufficient permission to access the requested Authentication resource. Refer to Set up a Firebase project for documentation on how to generate a credential with appropriate permissions and use it to authenticate the Admin SDKs.

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Firebase Admin Authentication API Errors ↗

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Checked on: 2026-11-12

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