Unable to use heroku gem cli after password changes

Question

I changed my password via the web interface. And now I can\'t run any command that requires authentication. Password is using plain ASCII, nothing fancy, no Unicode, weird non-p

Answer 1

I had the same issue on Windows Vista.

I got authorization failed messages on every heroku command and wasn’t able to login.

c:\Sites\jut>heroku login
 !    Heroku client internal error.
 !    Search for help at: https://help.heroku.com
 !    Or report a bug at: https://github.com/heroku/heroku/issues/new

    Error:       Permission denied - C:/Users/myusername/_netrc (Errno::EACCES)
    Backtrace:   C:/Program Files/Heroku/vendor/gems/netrc-0.7.7/lib/netrc.rb:179:in `initialize'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/vendor/gems/netrc-0.7.7/lib/netrc.rb:179:in `open'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/vendor/gems/netrc-0.7.7/lib/netrc.rb:179:in `save'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/lib/heroku/auth.rb:94:in `delete_credentials'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/lib/heroku/auth.rb:40:in `login'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/lib/heroku/command/auth.rb:31:in `login'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/lib/heroku/command.rb:206:in `run'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/lib/heroku/cli.rb:28:in `start'
                 C:/Program Files/Heroku/bin/heroku:24:in `
'

    Command:     heroku login
    Version:     heroku/toolbelt/2.33.2 (i386-mingw32) ruby/1.9.2

I deleted C:/Users/myusername/_netrc where the passwords are stored.

After that I was able to heroku login again and all went fine!