Authenticate with GitHub using a token

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I am trying to authenticate with GitHub using a personal access token  In the help files at github  it states to use the cURL method to authenticate  https   help github com articles creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use   I have tried this  but I still cannot push to GitHub  Please note  I am trying to push from an unauthenticated server  Travis-CI    cd  HOME git config --global user email  emailaddress yahoo com  git config --global user name  username   curl -u  username  lt MYTOKEN gt   https   github com username ol3-1 git git clone --branch gh-pages https   github com username ol3-1 git gh-pages  cd gh-pages mkdir buildtest cd buildtest touch asdf asdf  git add -f   git commit -m  Travis build  TRAVIS BUILD NUMBER pushed to gh-pages  git push -fq origin gh-pages   This code causes the errors      remote  Anonymous access to scuzzlebuzzle ol3-1 git denied       fatal  Authentication failed for  https   github com scuzzlebuzzle ol3-1 git

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Step 1  Get access token In your github account Click on the image on the top corner of the page that contains your profile picture - gt  Settings - gt  In the side menu - gt  Developer Settings - gt  Personal access Tokens - gt  Generate new token  Step 2  Use the token   git push Username   lt your username gt  Password   lt the access token gt   Now I do not have to type username and password every time I push changes  I just type git push and press Enter  And changes will be pushed

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Your curl command is entirely wrong  You should be using the following  curl -H  Authorization  token  lt MYTOKEN gt         That aside  that doesn t authorize your computer to clone the repository if in fact it is private   Taking a look  however  indicates that it is not   What you would normally do is the following   git clone https   scuzzlebuzzle  lt MYTOKEN gt  github com scuzzlebuzzle ol3-1 git --branch gh-pages gh-pages   That will add your credentials to the remote created when cloning the repository  Unfortunately  however  you have no control over how Travis clones your repository  so you have to edit the remote like so     After cloning cd gh-pages git remote set-url origin https   scuzzlebuzzle  lt MYTOKEN gt  github com scuzzlebuzzle ol3-1 git   That will fix your project to use a remote with credentials built in      Warning  Tokens have read write access and should be treated like passwords  If you enter your token into the clone URL when cloning or adding a remote  Git writes it to your  git config file in plain text  which is a security risk

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To avoid handing over  the keys to the castle      Note that sigmavirus24 s response requires you to give Travis a token with fairly wide permissions -- since GitHub only offers tokens with wide scopes like  write all my public repos  or  write all my private repos    If you want to tighten down access  with a bit more work   you can use GitHub deployment keys combined with Travis encrypted yaml fields   Here s a sketch of how the technique works     First generate an RSA deploy key  via ssh-keygen  called my key and add it as a deploy key in your github repo settings   Then       password  openssl rand -hex 32    cat my key   openssl aes-256-cbc -k   password  -a   gt  my key enc   travis encrypt --add password  password -r my-github-user my-repo   Then use the  password file to decrypt your deploy key at integration-time  by adding to your yaml file   before script     - openssl aes-256-cbc -k   password  -d -a -in my key enc -out my deploy key   - echo -e  Host github com n  IdentityFile  path to my deploy key   gt     ssh config   - echo  github com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31 yMf Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J UX2B 2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7 wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ     gt     ssh known hosts   Note  the last line pre-populates github s RSA key  which avoids the need for manually accepting at the time of a connection

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First  you need to create a personal access token  PAT   This is described here  https   help github com articles creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use   Laughably  the article tells you how to create it  but gives absolutely no clue what to do with it  After about an hour of trawling documentation and Stack nbsp Overflow  I finally found the answer     git clone https   github com user-or-organisation myrepo git Username   lt my-username gt  Password   lt my-personal-access-token gt    I was actually forced to enable two-factor authentication by company policy while I was working remotely and still had local changes  so in fact it was not clone I needed  but push  I read in lots of places that I needed to delete and recreate the remote  but in fact my normal push command worked exactly the same as the clone above  and the remote did not change     git push https   github com user-or-organisation myrepo git Username   lt my-username gt  Password   lt my-personal-access-token gt      YMHuang put me on the right track with the documentation link

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For those coming from GitLab what s worked for me  Step 1  add remote git remote add origin https    lt access-token-name gt   lt access-token gt  gitlab com path to project git Step 2  pull once https    lt access-token-name gt   lt access-token gt  gitlab com path to project git now you are able to read write to from repository

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Normally I do like this   git push https     git token  github com user name repo name git   The git token is reading from variable config in azure devops    You can read my full blog here

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The password that you use to login to github com portal does not work in VS Code CLI Shell  You should copy PAT Token from URL https   github com settings tokens by generating new token and paste that string in CLI as password

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By having struggling so many hours  on applying GitHub token finally it works as below        cf export GITHUB TOKEN   codefresh get context github --decrypt -o   yaml   yq -y  spec data auth password     code follows Codefresh guidance on cloning a repo using token  freestyle  test carried  sed  d H M on match word  -123456-whatever  push back to the repo  which is private repo  triggered by DockerHub webhooks     Following is the complete code   version   1 0  steps    get git token      title  Reading Github token     image  codefresh cli     commands        - cf export GITHUB TOKEN   codefresh get context github --decrypt -o yaml   yq -y  spec data auth password    main clone      title  Updating the repo     image  alpine git latest     commands        - git clone https   chetabahana  GITHUB TOKEN github com chetabahana compose git       - cd compose  amp  amp  git remote rm origin       - git config --global user name  chetabahana        - git config --global user email  chetabahana gmail com        - git remote add origin https   chetabahana  GITHUB TOKEN github com chetabahana compose git       - sed -i  s - 0-9   1   -   a-zA-Z0-9       - date   d H M -whatever  g  cloudbuild yaml       - git status  amp  amp  git add    amp  amp  git commit -m  fresh commit   amp  amp  git push -u origin master   Output     On branch master  Changes not staged for commit      use  git add      to update what will be committed      use  git checkout --      to discard changes in working directory    modified    cloudbuild yaml   no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     master dbab20f  fresh commit   1 file changed  1 insertion     1 deletion -   Enumerating objects  5  done   Counting objects   20   1 5       Counting objects  100   5 5   done   Delta compression using up to 4 threads  Compressing objects   33   1 3      Writing objects  100   3 3   283 bytes   283 00 KiB s  done   Total 3  delta 2   reused 0  delta 0   remote  Resolving deltas    0   0 2          2 2   completed with 2 local objects   To https   github com chetabahana compose git     bbb6d2f  dbab20f  master - gt  master  Branch  master  set up to track remote branch  master  from  origin    Reading environment variable exporting file contents   Successfully ran freestyle step  Cloning the repo

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If you re using GitHub Enterprise and cloning the repo or pushing gives you a 403 error instead of prompting for a username token  you can use this    Delete the repo Open command prompt and navigate to the folder you want the repo in Type    git clone https    USERNAME   TOKEN   GIT ENTERPRISE DOMAIN   ORGANIZATION   REPO  git

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Automation   Git automation with OAuth tokens    git clone https   github com username repo git   Username  your token   Password    It also works in the git push command   Reference   https   help github com articles git-automation-with-oauth-tokens

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Having struggled with this issue for pretty much a full day hard coding in the ORG REPO section into our build script getting the dreaded  remote not found  error  eventually found a working solution to be to use the TRAVIS REPO SLUG  Switching this in for the hardcoded attributes worked immediately   git remote set-url origin https    ORG    TOKEN  github com   TRAVIS REPO SLUG

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I m on Ubuntu 20 04 and I kept getting the message that soon I wouldn t be able to login from console   I was terribly confused  Finally  I got to the URL below which will work   But you need to know how to create a PAT  Personal Access Token  which you are going to have to keep in a file on your computer  Here s what the final URL will look like  git push https   1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 github com user-name repo git  long PAT  Personal Access Token  value -- The entire long value between the    and the   sign in the url is your PAT  user-name will be your exact username repo git will be your exact repo name You need to generate a PAT following the steps at  https   docs github com en github authenticating-to-github creating-a-personal-access-token That will give you the PAT value that you will place in your URL  When you create the PAT make sure you choose the following options so it has the ability to allow you to manage your REPOs   Save Your PAT Or Lose It Once you have your PAT  You re going to need to save it in a file locally so you can use it again   If you don t save it somewhere there is no way to ever see it again and you ll be forced to create a new PAT Now you re going to need at the very least    a way to display it in your console so you can see it again  or  A way to copy it to your clipboard automatically   For 1  just use     cat   files myPatFile txt  Where the path is a real path to the location and file where you stored your PAT value  For 2   xclip -selection clipboard  lt    files myPatFile txt  That ll copy the contents of the file to the clipboard so you can use your PAT more easily  FYI - if you don t have xclip do the following    sudo apt-get install xclip  Downloads and installs xclip  If you don t have apt-get  you might need to use another installer  like yum

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This worked for me using ssh   Settings  rarr  Developer settings  rarr  Generate new token   git remote set-url origin https    APPLICATION   NEW TOKEN  github com  ORGANISATION   REPO  git

[github] Authenticate with GitHub using a token

Step 1: Get access token

Step 2: Use the token

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