kubectl error You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized) when accessing EKS cluster

Question

I have been trying to follow the getting started guide to EKS. When I tried to call kubectl get service I got the message: error: You must be logged in to the server (Unaut

Answer 1

I commented out the last two lines of the config file

# - "-r"
# - "arn:aws:iam::**********:role/**********"

and it worked though I have no idea why