401 bad credentials when attempting to create a runner registration token

[mbzomowski]

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This is an issue that I'm having with Actions Runner Controller, and I've created a question here under ARC discussions. However, the error I'm seeing is due to a 401 response from the GH API:

unexpected response from Actions service during registration token call: 401 - {\"message\":\"Bad credentials\",\"documentation_url\":\"https://docs.github.com/rest\"}"}

This happens when ARC attempts to create a runner registration token for https://github.com/pytorch/xla using a GH app I created under a test org here: https://github.com/apps/tpu-ci-test.

What I believe is happening is that because the GH app I created (under the org https://github.com/bzmarke-test-org) was not created under the same org as the repo I'm attempting to get a runner registration token for (https://github.com/pytorch), I'm getting a 401 response, even though the GH app has all the necessary permissions (repo admin read & write, org self-hosted runners read & write, metadata read), and has been installed in the pytorch org.

Can someone please confirm this is the case? Does the GH app need to be under the same org as the repo?

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