# You must be signed in to perform this operation

**URL:** <https://forum.remote.it/t/you-must-be-signed-in-to-perform-this-operation/1109>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [June 21, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/you-must-be-signed-in-to-perform-this-operation/1109 "2024-06-21T19:32:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![mycal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mycal](https://forum.remote.it/u/mycal)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/you-must-be-signed-in-to-perform-this-operation/1109/1 "2024-06-21T19:32:50Z")

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If your getting the “you must be signed in to perform this operation” there seems to be a bug in detecting an expired login token. This should be fixed next release, but for now please sign out and sign back in.

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**Author:** ![mycal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mycal](https://forum.remote.it/u/mycal)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/you-must-be-signed-in-to-perform-this-operation/1109/2 "2024-06-21T23:22:19Z")

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Also if you have no /etc/remoteit it can cause this problem on non windows computers, in this case you can:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/remoteit

then signout/signin in desktop