Git Clone from GitHub over https with two-factor authentication

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I recently began using two-factor authentication on GitHub  and I am now unable to use git over https on private repos in the usual way   peter computer    git clone https   github com       MyPrivateRepo Cloning into  MyPrivateRepo     Username for  https   github com         Password for  https         github com    remote  Invalid username or password  fatal  Authentication failed for  https   github com       MyPrivateRepo     If I disable two-factor authentication I can use it as before   peter computer    git clone https   github com       MyPrivateRepo Cloning into  MyPrivateRepo     Username for  https   github com         Password for  https         github com    remote  Counting objects  147  done  remote  Total 147  delta 0   reused 0  delta 0   pack-reused 147 Receiving objects  100   147 147   22 70 KiB   0 bytes s  done  Resolving deltas  100   87 87   done  Checking connectivity    done    I know I can use SSH and everything works  but is there a way I can keep two-factor authentication while still being able to use GitHub over HTTPS  for example by sending an auth token with my request

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1st  Get personal access token  https   github com settings tokens 2nd  Put account  amp  the token  Example is here    git push Username for  https   github com                Put your GitHub account name Password for  https    USERNAME  github com     Put your Personal access token  Link on how to create a personal access token  https   help github com en github authenticating-to-github creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line

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It generally comes to mind that you have set up two-factor authentication  after a few password trials and maybe a password reset  So  how can we git clone a private repository using two-factor authentication  It is simple  using access tokens  How to Authenticate Git using Access Tokens  Go to https   github com settings tokens Click Generate New Token button on top right  Give your token a descriptive name  Set all required permissions for the token  Click Generate token button at the bottom  Copy the generated token to a safe place  Use this token instead of password when you use git clone   Wow  it works

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To everyone struggling  what worked for me was creating personal access token and then using it as a username AND password  in the prompt that opened

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If your repo have 2FA enabled  Highly suggest to use the app provided by github com  Here is the link  https   desktop github com   After you downloaded it and installed it  Follow the withard  the app will ask you to provide the one time password for login  Once you filled in the one time password  you could see your repo projects now

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As per  Nitsew s answer  Create your personal access token and use your token as your username and enter with blank password   Later you won t need any credentials to access all your private repo s

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Find out how to fix this here  https   github com blog 1614-two-factor-authentication how-does-it-work-for-command-line-git  How does it work for command-line Git  If you are using SSH for Git authentication  rest easy  you don t need to do anything  If you are using HTTPS Git  instead of entering your password  enter a personal access token  These can be created by going to your personal access tokens page

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