desktop: authentication fails for https://{username}@github.com remote
Description
Can not access my private GitHub repository as the remote syntax isn’t handled by the application.
Version
GitHub Desktop version: 0.5.8 OS version: macOS 10.12.5
Steps to Reproduce
- Open Local Repository (private GitHub repository)
- Trying to Push
- Error: Athentication failed.
- Logging out and in again.
- Trying to Push
- Error: Athentication failed.
Expected behaviour: Pushing commit Actual behaviour: Authentication fails Reproduces how often: 100%
Logs
2017-05-29T09:25:29.011Z - info: Opt in reported.
2017-05-29T09:25:29.565Z - info: Stats reported.
Additional Information
This issue does not appear with the current (stable) GitHub Desktop client.
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Reactions: 7
- Comments: 19 (10 by maintainers)
Cool, that sounds like we’re on the right track.
@EisenbergEffect we handle the 2FA flow when you sign into your GitHub account in the app, and the authorization token we use then is stored locally for use with your Git operations. So if you switch it over to a HTTPS remote we’ll pass that token through to the Git operations.
@EisenbergEffect yeah, if you run this command from the terminal in the repository you should see the remote URL:
We haven’t gotten around to proper support for SSH remotes (see #1795 for example) and I wanted to confirm that you’re using a HTTPS remote (which we do default to if you’ve cloned the repository in Desktop)
@joshaber gonna close this out as I think that’s everything
@alshenetsky unfortunately that’s a different issue which we’re tracking in #852