Turbo link -> HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden)

I moved to a monoreppo and want to use remote caching (using nextjs 15.4.5 and turbo 2.5.5).

The issue is pretty simple, turbo login returns [HTTP 403] request to https://vercel.com/api/v5/user/tokens/current returned "Not authorized", so I need to force it using turbo login --force and now it work like a charm. The issue comes with turbo link, which returns me a 403 right after choosing my repo. ? Enable Vercel Remote Cache for ~/work/numo ? yes × Could not get user information: Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for │ url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user) ├─▶ Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/ │ user) ╰─▶ HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user) I have no clue on why it happened, is there any way to relink the project or redo the link from scratch. But I'm stuck there and can't find any reason why.

1Here is my turbo.json2{3  "$schema": "https://turbo.build/schema.json",4  "ui": "tui",5  "tasks": {6    "build": {7      "dependsOn": ["^build"],8      "inputs": ["$TURBO_DEFAULT$", ".env*"],9      "outputs": [".next/**", "!.next/cache/**"],10      "env": ["DATABASE_URL"]11    },12    "typecheck": {13      "dependsOn": ["^typecheck"]14    },15    "test": {16      "dependsOn": ["^build"],17      "cache": false18    },19    "test:unit": {20      "cache": false21    },22    "test:integration": {23      "dependsOn": ["^build"],24      "cache": false25    },26    "dev": {27      "cache": false,28      "persistent": true29    },30    "clean": {31      "cache": false32    }33  }34}

My packages.json is on pnpm working just fine but I don’t think it’s link to the issue

Vercel Staff

Hey, are you running this lon local machine or on a CI runner like GitHub action?

Currently on local machine only, I have legit no clue why it’s happening to me, I’ve done nothing “deep” it’s the basic turbo login/link. Do you have any leads?

Vercel Staff

Can you run turbo login --output-logs=full when this happens and share us the output?

(edited)

It’s only force with –force, but that might be a good indication that something is off

`2025-09-14T19:48:08.671+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim: Global turbo version: 2.5.62025-09-14T19:48:08.671+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_repository::package_json: loading package.json from /Users/nerap/work/numo/package.json2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_repository::package_json: loading package.json from /Users/nerap/work/package.json2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_repository::package_json: loading package.json from /Users/nerap/package.json2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_repository::package_json: loading package.json from /Users/package.json2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_repository::package_json: loading package.json from /package.json2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim: Repository Root: /Users/nerap/work/numo2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim::local_turbo_state: No local turbo binary found at: /Users/nerap/work/numo/node_modules/turbo-darwin-arm64/bin/turbo2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim::local_turbo_state: No local turbo binary found at: /Users/nerap/work/numo/node_modules/turbo/node_modules/turbo-darwin-arm64/bin/turbo2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_repository::package_json: loading package.json from /Users/nerap/work/numo/node_modules/.pnpm/turbo@2.5.6/node_modules/turbo-darwin-arm64/package.json2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim::local_turbo_state: Local turbo path: /Users/nerap/work/numo/node_modules/.pnpm/turbo-darwin-arm64@2.5.6/node_modules/turbo-darwin-arm64/bin/turbo2025-09-14T19:48:08.673+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim::local_turbo_state: Local turbo version: 2.5.62025-09-14T19:48:08.674+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim: Running local turbo binary in /Users/nerap/work/numo/node_modules/.pnpm/turbo-darwin-arm64@2.5.6/node_modules/turbo-darwin-arm64/bin/turbo

2025-09-14T19:48:08.674+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim: supports_skip_infer_and_single_package true2025-09-14T19:48:08.679+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_lib::shim: Global turbo version: 2.5.62025-09-14T19:48:08.771+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_telemetry::config: Telemetry config path: /Users/nerap/Library/Application Support/turborepo/telemetry.jsonturbo 2.5.6

2025-09-14T19:48:08.917+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_auth::auth::login: found existing turbo token2025-09-14T19:48:08.935+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:08.935+0200 [TRACE] log: signal found waiting giver, notifying2025-09-14T19:48:08.935+0200 [TRACE] log: poll_want: taker wants!2025-09-14T19:48:08.935+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:08.935+0200 [TRACE] log: signal found waiting giver, notifying2025-09-14T19:48:08.935+0200 [TRACE] log: poll_want: taker wants!2025-09-14T19:48:09.028+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:09.028+0200 [TRACE] log: signal found waiting giver, notifying2025-09-14T19:48:09.028+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:09.028+0200 [TRACE] log: poll_want: taker wants!2025-09-14T19:48:09.028+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: signal found waiting giver, notifying2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: poll_want: taker wants!2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Want2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] turborepo_telemetry: Flushed telemetry event queue (num_events=10)2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Closed2025-09-14T19:48:09.099+0200 [TRACE] log: signal: Closed2025-09-14T19:48:09.100+0200 [DEBUG] turborepo_telemetry: failed to record cache usage telemetry. error: Error making HTTP request: error sending request for url (https://telemetry.vercel.com/api/turborepo/v1/events)× [HTTP 403] request to https://vercel.com/api/v5/user/tokens/current returned “Not│ authorized”│ Try logging in again, or force a refresh of your token (turbo login --sso-team=your-team│ --force).`

Vercel Staff

Can you also share output of curl -4 ifconfig.me from same machine?

<!DOCTYPE html>

1What Is My IP Address? - [ifconfig.me](https://ifconfig.me)23456789    1011        Need a robust API to Geolocate IPs and fetch other crucial information? Try12        [IPinfo.io](https://ipinfo.io/?utm_source=ifconfig.me&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=upsell_sister_sites).13    141516171819    2021        22            23                24

What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me

1                            [http://twitter.com/share](http://twitter.com/share)2                            3                        45                        67                            8                            9                            10                            11                                (function () {12                                    var po = document.createElement('script');13                                    po.type = 'text/javascript';14                                    po.async = true;15                                    po.src = '[https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js](https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js)';16                                    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];17                                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);18                                })();19                            20                        2122                    2324                25            26        27    2829    3031

Your Connection

1                IP Address2                **3                        90.127.8.854                    **5            6            7                User Agent8                9                    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExampleBot/1.0)10                11            12            13                Language14                15                16            17            18                Referer19                20                21            22            23                Method24                25                    GET26                27            28            29                Encoding30                31                32            33            34                MIME Type35                36                    */*37                38            39            40                Charset41                42                43            44            45                X-Forwarded-For46                47                    90.127.8.85,34.160.111.14548                49            50        51    5253    54    5556

Command Line Interface

1                $ curl [ifconfig.me](https://ifconfig.me)2                &rArr;3                4                    90.127.8.855                6            7            8                $ curl [ifconfig.me/ip](https://ifconfig.me/ip)9                &rArr;10                11                    90.127.8.8512                13            14            15                $ curl [ifconfig.me/ua](https://ifconfig.me/ua)16                &rArr;17                18                    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExampleBot/1.0)19                20            21            22                $ curl [ifconfig.me/lang](https://ifconfig.me/lang)23                &rArr;24                25                26            27            28                $ curl [ifconfig.me/encoding](https://ifconfig.me/encoding)29                &rArr;30                31                32            33            34                $ curl [ifconfig.me/mime](https://ifconfig.me/mime)35                &rArr;36                37                    */*38                39            40            41                $ curl [ifconfig.me/charset](https://ifconfig.me/charset)42                &rArr;43                44                45            46            47                $ curl [ifconfig.me/forwarded](https://ifconfig.me/forwarded)48                &rArr;49                50                    90.127.8.85,34.160.111.14551                52            53            54                $ curl [ifconfig.me/all](https://ifconfig.me/all)55                &rArr;56                57                        ip_addr: 90.127.8.8558                          5960                        remote_host: unavailable61                          6263                        user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExampleBot/1.0)64                          6566                        port: 4945267                          6869                        language:70                          7172                        referer:73                          7475                        connection:76                          7778                        keep_alive:79                          8081                        method: GET82                          8384                        encoding:85                          8687                        mime: */*88                          8990                        charset:91                          9293                        via: 1.1 google94                          9596                        forwarded: 90.127.8.85,34.160.111.14597                          9899                          100101                102            103            104                $ curl [ifconfig.me/all.json](https://ifconfig.me/all.json)105                &rArr;106                107                    {"ip_addr":"90.127.8.85","user_agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExampleBot/1.0)","port":"49452","method":"GET","mime":"*/*","via":"1.1 google","forwarded":"90.127.8.85,34.160.111.145"}108                109            110        111    112113

(edited)

I have the same issue, I tried

npx turbo login –force

and it generates a new token, but I get 403 again running

npx turbo link

output:

1turbo 2.5.6234>>> Remote Caching56Remote Caching makes your caching multiplayer,7sharing build outputs and logs between developers and CI/CD systems.89Build and deploy faster.1011For more information, visit: https://turborepo.com/docs/core-concepts/remote-caching1213? Enable Vercel Remote Cache for ~/Projects/[***] ? yes14  × Could not get user information: Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)15  ├─▶ Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)16  ╰─▶ HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)

I have the exact same issue, running turbo login --force:

1turbo 2.5.823>>> Opening browser to https://vercel.com/turborepo/token?redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A978945>>> Success! Turborepo CLI authorized for egeaksun@gmail.com6To connect to your Remote Cache, run the following in any turborepo:7  npx turbo link

then running npx turbo link:

1turbo 2.5.8234>>> Remote Caching56Remote Caching makes your caching multiplayer,7sharing build outputs and logs between developers and CI/CD systems.89Build and deploy faster.1011For more information, visit: https://turborepo.com/docs/core-concepts/remote-caching1213? Enable Vercel Remote Cache for ~/Desktop/neue7 ? yes14  × Could not get user information: Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)15  ├─▶ Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)16  ╰─▶ HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)

On local machine, macOS, latest version of turbo (v2.5.8). I don't know what is causing this, but I had it working fine previously. Understood it broke once I started getting "insufficient permissions" warnings regarding uploading cache while building locally.

Vercel Staff

Hi, could you try running turbo login && turbo link --scope together and let us know if you are seeing this as well?

(edited)

facing the same issue. Here is the output

1➜ git:(noqcks/upgrade-turbo) turbo login --force && turbo link --scope=<myteam>2turbo 2.5.834>>> Opening browser to https://vercel.com/turborepo/token?redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A978956>>> Success! Turborepo CLI authorized for benji@<mydomain>.org7To connect to your Remote Cache, run the following in any turborepo:8  npx turbo link910turbo 2.5.8111213>>> Remote Caching1415Remote Caching makes your caching multiplayer,16sharing build outputs and logs between developers and CI/CD systems.1718Build and deploy faster.1920For more information, visit: https://turborepo.com/docs/core-concepts/remote-caching2122? Enable Vercel Remote Cache for ~/data/<ghorg>/<repo> ? yes23  × Could not get user information: Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)24  ├─▶ Error making HTTP request: HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)25  ╰─▶ HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://vercel.com/api/v2/user)

the same issue if I leave out the scope.

And if I add sso-team

1turbo login --force --sso-team=<vercelteamslug> && turbo link --scope=<vercelteamslug>2turbo 2.5.834>>> Opening browser to https://vercel.com/api/auth/sso?teamId=<vercelteamslug>&mode=login&next=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A97895  × failed to get token6

I’ve noticed that the remote caching docs are outdated too. I see no Remote Caching section in my teams billing section, that’s now in the Build and Deployment section.

https://vercel.com/docs/monorepos/remote-caching#enable-and-disable-remote-caching-for-your-team

What fixed this for me is instead of using –force running turbo logout and then going through the steps again as normal without –force

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It’s only force with –force, but that might be a good indication that something is off