desktop: Unable to push to organization with OAuth App restrictions

Describe the bug

git push in command line works, but pushing through GH desktop does not. Same issue with publishing a new branch. It does work when I push to one of my own repositories, but it doesn’t if I push to a repo where I have write access but do not own, even when I am the only owner in an organization.

Version & OS

2.1.0-linux1

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Make any change or create a new branch, to a repo that you have write access to but is not under your account.
Click Push or Publish branch.
Auth error pops up and cannot write to repo.

Expected behavior

I should be able to write to any repo that I have write access to.

Screenshots

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Logs

2020-02-17T21:13:20.848Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] loading 11 repositories from store
2020-02-17T21:13:20.849Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] found account: Raymo111 (Raymond Li)
2020-02-17T21:13:21.735Z - info: [ui] [BranchPruner] Pruning 0 branches that have been merged into the default branch, master (97c040e6dc4e9e1bc78046936cfe01f126903074), from 'smoothie-web
2020-02-17T21:13:22.010Z - info: [ui] launching: 2.1.0-linux1 (Linux 5.5.4-arch1-1)
2020-02-17T21:13:22.010Z - info: [ui] execPath: '/opt/github-desktop/github-desktop'
2020-02-17T21:13:31.948Z - info: [ui] [Timing] Action 'create commit' for 'bayviewcomputerclub/smoothie-web' took 0.669s
2020-02-17T21:13:33.968Z - info: [ui] [AppStore.withAuthenticatingUser] account found for repository: smoothie-web - Raymo111 (has token)
2020-02-17T21:14:02.227Z - info: [ui] [AppStore.withAuthenticatingUser] account found for repository: smoothie-web - Raymo111 (has token)
2020-02-17T21:14:03.333Z - info: [ui] Executing push: git -c credential.helper= -c protocol.version=2 push origin master:master --progress (took 1.065s)

Additional context

Executing git -c credential.helper= -c protocol.version=2 push origin master:master --progress from command line and then typing in CORRECT username and password gives:

Username for 'https://github.com': Raymo111
Password for 'https://Raymo111@github.com': 
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/BayviewComputerClub/smoothie-web.git/'

However, just doing git -c protocol.version=2 push origin master:master --progress works:

Enumerating objects: 19, done.
Counting objects: 100% (19/19), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 1.36 KiB | 463.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 10 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (4/4), completed with 4 local objects.
To https://github.com/BayviewComputerClub/smoothie-web.git
   7a3bfc5..91bce88  master -> master

So it’s an issue with -c credential.helper=.

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Still happening.

If you try to go to the folder and push manually this is what I’ve got:

naudotojas@naudotojas-N53SV:~/Documents/GitHub/my-linux-kernel-shell$ git push
Username for 'https://github.com': boqsc
Password for 'https://boqsc@github.com': 
remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/vaido-world/my-linux-kernel-shell.git/'

As the above message mentions, it is no longer possible to authenticate with a regular method of username and password on git push anymore. Warns and explains to use Personal Access Token to execute.

GitHub Desktop and Personal Access Tokens

GitHub Desktop is probably outdated and does not support personal access token on Linux.

Manually pushing changes

Generating personal access token is a proper way to authenticate and push changes.

Tutorial on generating Personal Access Token:
https://techglimpse.com/git-push-github-token-based-passwordless/

Example: Personal Access Token usage via git push command: git push https://<GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN>@github.com/<GITHUB_USERNAME>/<REPOSITORY_NAME>.git

Manually temporary resolving this issue for a single git repository

You can go into .git folder and open up config file. Find remote origin url line there and replace its content with

url = https://<GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN>@github.com/<GITHUB_USERNAME>/<REPOSITORY_NAME>.git

Before

After

Then you can go to the GitHub Desktop and press the push button and it will push properly using your personal token.

BoQsc on Oct 5, 2021

i’m having similar issue. after login through linux version, it will not show any organization repo. and when i try to check out a organization repo, it will error out saying auth failed. when i’m trying to login through browser redirect, the app require a separate Oauth app authentication for organization repo, i’m using ubuntu 19.10 this behavior is not present on window and mac version of desktop, both will not require additional Oauth credential and will display organization repo after login.

rsheng118 on Feb 26, 2020

I am having the same problem. I can clone and push my repositories or repositories that I have access through GitHub Desktop in Linux, but I cannot with repositories which their owner is a organization. I do not have this problem in GitHub Desktop in Windows.

Daniel22L on Aug 26, 2021

Wait but the main GH desktop doesn’t have the enable for organizations option though in profile. Why does the Linux port have it?

Raymo111 on Feb 21, 2020