Create Github personal access token in 5 simple steps
On August 13, 2021, GitHub removed support for remote password authentication. Now you need to create a personal authentication token and have to use that instead of the password. Do you want to create your token? If yes follow these simple 5 steps.
Step 1:
๐ Go to settings
Step 2:
๐ Click on Developers setting, look at the bottom of the left sidebar
Step 3 :
๐ Click on Personal Access Token
Step 4:
๐ Select either Fine-grained Tokens (beta) or Tokens (Classic)
Step 5 :
๐ Click on the Generate New Token
Happy Ending :
Save your token
Set the expiry date for your token
Now instead of a password in your terminal use this code.
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Mohd Asif
A history student & researcher turned frontend developer.