On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 19:51 +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 16.08.2021 um 16:46 schrieb Lee: > > On 8/16/21, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords > > > anymore. > > > So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a > > > "token"), which I did a while ago. > > > But they refuse to support users with the transition, there is no > > > "plug-and-play" howto available, except for those who are willing to > > > dive into details of authentication stuff and spend a few study hours on > > > that useless policy change. > > > As I cannot update mintty anymore right now from the git command line, > > > is any maintainer here impacted by the same issue and can help out with > > > some advice how to get rid of this nuisance? > > ssh keys work - start here: > > https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh > Thanks for the link. So I've now added my ssh key to github and > successfully tested it. > Now what? git push apparently still wants to use the old password and > reports an error.
Make sure the (push)url for the remote to which you wish to push is in the form g...@github.com:NAMESPACE/PROJECT.git rather than an https:// form. -- Yaakov Selkowitz Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Red Hat, Inc.
