docker login fails on a server with no X11 installed

Question

I am trying to deploy a docker configuration with images on a private docker registry.

Now, every time I execute docker login registry.example.com, I get the

Answer 1

There is a much easier answer than the ones already posted, which I found in a comment on https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers/issues/105.

The solution is to rename docker-credential-secretservice out of the way e.g: mv /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice /usr/bin/docker-credential-secretservice.broken

Once you do this, docker login works regardless of whether or not docker-compose is installed. No other package additions or removals are necessary.