Title: Error 401 in creating post using rest-api
Last modified: December 15, 2017

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# Error 401 in creating post using rest-api

 *  [jangirsuresh95](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jangirsuresh95/)
 * (@jangirsuresh95)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-401-in-creating-post-using-rest-api/)
 * I am trying to use Basic Auth using username / password and I am getting below
   error which i see in rest api logs. I tried both Java based and Node JS based
   client. My user is Admin and have whole access. I am able to read the post but
   creating post have the problem.
 * {
    “data”: { “code”: “rest_cannot_create”, “message”: “Sorry, you are not allowed
   to create posts as this user.”, “data”: { “status”: 401 } }, “headers”: { “Allow”:“
   GET” }, “status”: 401 }

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-401-in-creating-post-using-rest-api/#post-9786435)
 * Useful resource: [https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/)

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