diff --git a/tests/test_progit_flask_api_auth.py b/tests/test_progit_flask_api_auth.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+ (c) 2015 - Copyright Red Hat Inc
+
+ Authors:
+   Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr>
+
+"""
+
+__requires__ = ['SQLAlchemy >= 0.8']
+import pkg_resources
+
+import unittest
+import shutil
+import sys
+import os
+
+import json
+from mock import patch
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(
+    os.path.abspath(__file__)), '..'))
+
+import pagure.lib
+import tests
+
+
+class PagureFlaskApiAuthtests(tests.Modeltests):
+    """ Tests for the authentication in the flask API of pagure """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        """ Set up the environnment, ran before every tests. """
+        super(PagureFlaskApiAuthtests, self).setUp()
+
+        pagure.APP.config['TESTING'] = True
+        pagure.SESSION = self.session
+        pagure.api.SESSION = self.session
+        self.app = pagure.APP.test_client()
+
+    def test_auth_no_data(self):
+        """ Test the authentication when there is nothing in the database.
+        """
+
+        output = self.app.post('/api/0/foo/new_issue')
+        self.assertEqual(output.status_code, 401)
+        data = json.loads(output.data)
+        self.assertDictEqual(
+            data,
+            {
+              "error": "Login invalid/expired. Please visit " \
+                  "https://pagure.org/ get or renew your API token.",
+              "output": "notok"
+            }
+        )
+
+        headers = {'Authorization': 'token aabbbccc'}
+
+        output = self.app.post('/api/0/foo/new_issue', headers=headers)
+        self.assertEqual(output.status_code, 401)
+        data = json.loads(output.data)
+        self.assertDictEqual(
+            data,
+            {
+              "error": "Login invalid/expired. Please visit " \
+                  "https://pagure.org/ get or renew your API token.",
+              "output": "notok"
+            }
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    SUITE = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(
+        PagureFlaskApiAuthtests)
+    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(SUITE)