# Tower cli giving 403 error

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-cli-giving-403-error/29085>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-cli-giving-403-error/29085 "2018-11-20T20:23:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gowtham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gowtham](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gowtham)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-cli-giving-403-error/29085/1 "2018-11-20T20:23:26Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to use tower cli to copy objects from one instance to other. But I am getting following error '**You don’t have permission to do that (HTTP 403)'.** Any idea about this issue?

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**Author:** ![Sam2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sam2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sam2)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tower-cli-giving-403-error/29085/2 "2018-11-23T14:35:03Z")

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what user you are running the tool ?