# Error running orb-tools/increment

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514>\
**Category:** Orbs\
**Tags:** auth, permissions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514 "2018-11-14T11:50:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dankelleher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/dankelleher/32/11568_2.png) [@dankelleher](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/dankelleher)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514/1 "2018-11-14T11:50:22Z")

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I’ve successfully published a dev version of an orb (civicteam/helm@dev:orbs) via circleci using the circleci/orb-tools@2.0.0 orb (publishing an orb for use in circleci via an orb on circleci is cool btw!)

However, I am getting this error when running Increment: “Error: User does not have access to publish SemVer orbs in this namespace.”. I am using the same publish-token-variable for publish and increment and this is a token generated by my github admin account. I also created the namespace itself.

Is the publish-token-variable the place where circle gets the permissions from, or is this based on some other setting in the circle project such as the github ssh key? I presume if I am a github admin I should have permissions to run increment?

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**Author:** ![rose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/rose/32/7816_2.png) [@rose](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/rose)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514/2 "2018-11-14T22:01:31Z")

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Hi @dankelleher

Can you open an issue in the GitHub repo?

> **[CircleCI-Public/orb-tools-orb](https://github.com/circleci-public/orb-tools-orb)**
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> Various tools for authoring and publishing Orbs. Contribute to CircleCI-Public/orb-tools-orb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![dankelleher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/dankelleher/32/11568_2.png) [@dankelleher](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/dankelleher)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514/3 "2018-11-15T09:19:39Z")

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Done: [https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/orb-tools-orb/issues/8](https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/orb-tools-orb/issues/8)

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**Author:** ![kaseymccurdy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@kaseymccurdy](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/kaseymccurdy)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514/4 "2019-04-03T21:11:22Z")

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I ran into this error as well, even after I had updated permissions set in Github. I actually needed to:

- go into my account in CircleCI and generate a new token
- run `circleci config`
- enter the new token
- profit

Everything worked great from there.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/error-running-orb-tools-increment/26514/5 "2019-04-13T21:19:11Z")

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