diff --git a/ui/app/components/auth-form.js b/ui/app/components/auth-form.js
index eda85747193a..11b1ae2cfede 100644
--- a/ui/app/components/auth-form.js
+++ b/ui/app/components/auth-form.js
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ export default Component.extend(DEFAULTS, {
 
   showLoading: or('isLoading', 'authenticate.isRunning', 'fetchMethods.isRunning', 'unwrapToken.isRunning'),
 
-  handleError(e) {
+  handleError(e, prefixMessage = true) {
     this.set('loading', false);
     if (!e.errors) {
       return e;
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ export default Component.extend(DEFAULTS, {
       }
       return error;
     });
-    this.set('error', `Authentication failed: ${errors.join('.')}`);
+    let message = prefixMessage ? 'Authentication failed: ' : '';
+    this.set('error', `${message}${errors.join('.')}`);
   },
 
   authenticate: task(function*(backendType, data) {
@@ -239,5 +240,12 @@ export default Component.extend(DEFAULTS, {
       }
       return this.authenticate.unlinked().perform(backend.type, data);
     },
+    handleError(e) {
+      if (e) {
+        this.handleError(e, false);
+      } else {
+        this.set('error', null);
+      }
+    },
   },
 });
diff --git a/ui/app/templates/components/auth-form.hbs b/ui/app/templates/components/auth-form.hbs
index 22ca15e94622..8d1f204d3958 100644
--- a/ui/app/templates/components/auth-form.hbs
+++ b/ui/app/templates/components/auth-form.hbs
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
     {{/if}}
   {{#if (or (eq this.selectedAuthBackend.type "jwt") (eq this.selectedAuthBackend.type "oidc"))}}
     <AuthJwt
-      @onError={{action (mut this.error)}}
+      @onError={{action "handleError"}}
       @onLoading={{action (mut this.isLoading)}}
       @onToken={{action (mut this.token)}}
       @namespace={{this.namespace}}