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How to switch from GitHub password authentication to personal access token
5 min readSep 29, 2021
Some time ago, Github disabled authentication with login and password in favor of token based authentication. From this article, you will learn how to switch to the new authentication method.
CHEAT SHEET
Requirements: windows, ssh, git, git bash, GitHub private token file
Optional: adjust your setup, or commands to your setup1. Rename GitHub private token file to
id_rsa_something2. Place it inside:
C:\Users\YourUserName\.ssh\3. Add this piece of config to C:\Users\YourUserName\.ssh\config file:Host github.com
User git
IdentityFile C:\Users\YourUserName\.ssh\id_rsa_yourorganisation_yourfolder(between IdentityFile and the path there is a single space, not a new line)4. Start SSH agent by calling this command from Bash:eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"5. If you want to start it automatically, start ssh agent with Task Scheduler.
DETAILS
Message you will see when trying to do push to a remote GitHub repository with password authentication:
Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.You can switch your authentication method to personal access token on your live local repository.
