# root_key_required (/en/docs/errores/root_key_required)

This endpoint accepts only a root key or an account session.

|                |                                                    |
| -------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| **Code**       | `root_key_required`                                |
| **Type**       | `permission_error` — Valid credential, not allowed |
| **HTTP**       | `403`                                              |
| **Retriable?** | No                                                 |

## What to do [#what-to-do]

Key management is a root-key power. Mint a root key from an account session with `POST /dashboard/api_keys \{"name": "…", "root": true\}`; it comes back as `sk_live_root_…` / `sk_test_root_…` and is the credential `POST /v1/api_keys` takes.

> **Warning**
>
> Retrying the same request will fail the same way. Change the request, not the frequency.

## The envelope [#the-envelope]

```json
{
  "error": {
    "type": "permission_error",
    "code": "root_key_required",
    "message": "…",
    "hint": "Key management is a root-key power. Mint a root key from an account session with `POST /dashboard/api_keys {\"name\": \"…\", \"root\": true}`; it comes back as `sk_live_root_…` / `sk_test_root_…` and is the credential `POST /v1/api_keys` takes.",
    "retriable": false,
    "doc_url": "https://docs.facturia.cl/errors/root_key_required",
    "request_id": "req_01K2R7Q9M4T2VB"
  }
}
```

Program against `code`, never against `message` — the prose can be rewritten, the code cannot (§5.8).

`hint` and `retriable` arrive in the response with these exact values: they are a function of `code` and come from the same dictionary `GET /v1/error_codes` serves, so the envelope and the dictionary cannot disagree. Both are English on the wire by design — one registry, one language. More in [The error envelope](/en/docs/errores).

## See also [#see-also]

- [Every code](/en/docs/errores/codigos): The full table, grouped by where you will run into it.

- [The error envelope](/en/docs/errores): The nine types, the request_id and how to handle them in practice.

The machine-readable copy of this page lives at `GET /v1/error_codes`, unauthenticated.