Re: github password policy

[Jonathan Yong via Cygwin-apps]

On 8/16/21 5:51 PM, 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.

Kind regards,
Thomas

Regards
Lee

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Check your push URL, make sure it is ssh://g...@github.com/.../.

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