On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 2:11 AM Qian Yun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the correct way for GitHub access is to use PAT:
>
> https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token
>
> You have to login to web pages and generate a PAT, then
> use it instead of password for the https address.

well, yes, that's a way to circumvent 2FA, but certainly this is an
overkill for merely using git

(it's needed for operations beyond that, i.e. for using GitHub's APIs)

>
> - Qian
>
> On 7/26/22 07:42, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:54:33AM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you mean to say that you cannot have ssh authentication with
> >> GitHub's git server?
> >> (well, yes, if you don't have a GitHub account then you can't upload
> >> an ssh key, indeed...)
> >
> > I have.  But doing
> >
> > git clone https://github.com/fricas/fricas
> >
> > gives read-only copy.  IIRC has to do use
> >
> > [email protected]:fricas/fricas
> >
> > At least for some operations using https address
> > leads to password prompt that does not work.
> > For best "security" error messages are non-informative,
> > so it was not clear what is wrong.  My first suspicion
> > was that instruction was wrong (there is a _lot_ of
> > wrong stuff on the net).  But later I realised
> > another thing did not work with https address, so
> > probably I used https address and merge did not
> > work due to https address.
> >
>
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