Github, haiku and two factor authentication

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Hi everyone.

I’m getting warnings from github that from the 13th August, two factor authentication will be required to access github. Will this present a problem when using command line git client from Haiku itself?

Anyone have a easy to follow guide how to resolve and authentication problems under Haiku?

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IIRC you’d have to generate ssh keys and connect them to your GitHub account (only did it once and put the generated key in ~/config/settings/ssh, then switch from http acces to ssh at GitHub), don’t know all the details though :slight_smile:
PS the warning has been around for a while

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AFAIK, it’s not mandatory two factor authentication. You won’t be able to use nickname/password, but can still log in via ssh and uploaded keys.

  • Log into https://github.com and go to Settings | SSH aand GPG keys
  • If you haven’t already, add your public key from ~/config/settings/ssh/id_rsa.pub

From now on, don’t clone with the HTTPS url, like git clone https://github.com/humdingerb/Clipdinger.git but over SSH:

git clone git@github.com:humdingerb/clipdinger

When done for the first time, you’re requested to add github to your ‘known_hosts’ file.

Repos you already checked out via HTTPS can be migrated to SSH with:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:humdingerb/Clipdinger

(possibly replace ‘origin’ with how you named your forked remote repo)