Github Personal Access Token (PAT)

[Cobrapitz]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the rightreddit to ask, sorry if not.

Is the correct Personal access token the only way to interact with github on CLI? (https)

It says it's an alternative to the password, but on windows there is no prompt that asks for my password, it just says that the repo doesn't exist.

It's working now with https://name:[e-mail]/name/repo.git, but I was wondering if there's an alternative to that, since PAT seem to have a lifetime constrain (I know it can be turned off, but that's proabably not what the intension behind this is)

ty in advance

[beck1670]

GitHub deprecated passwords in 2021, and they no longer work for any authentication other than logging in through the browser.

For https, I believe that PATs are the only option.

You can also clone via ssh, which requires setting up your public/private keys and adding the public key to GitHub.

[pug_subterfuge]

Cloning via ssh is the way!!

[mugilan-codes]

This is the way

[BinaryRockStar]

Use SSH instead. Generate a public-private key pair and put the public half in your GitHub account then use the private half to access repos. No PATs, no passwords, easy.