How to fix support for password authentication was removed on GitHub

Understanding how to configure and use Access Tokens in GitHub

Giorgos Myrianthous
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readDec 19, 2021

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Introduction

In July 2020, GitHub announced their intent to require users to use token-based authentication in order to perform certain (authenticated) Git operations. Going forward and as of the 13th of August…

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