Re: Feature Request Google Authenticator Support

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2014, 17:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP2yMaKDn2bqKy8SzXj5QXXHVPwVMFDFQmn8auSMLbyF5PFUBQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSZmvPH-J=r57_WNjq3WOS7m8dGyrj0Y84etF+8aGAMSiA@mail.gmail.com>

Hey,

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Max Rahm <ac90b671@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Github supports google authenticator 2-step authentication. I enabled it
>> and how can't figure out how to connect to my github account through git.
>> I've looked pretty hard in the man pages and on google and can't seem to
>> find anything on how to set up git to work with a repository with 2-step
>> verification. Here's a link to my stackoverflow question with my exact
>> problem if there's something I'm missing.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21447137/git-github-not-working-with-google-authenticator-osx
>>
>> As far as I can tell the feature is not supported. I'd like to be able to
>> use the 2-step authentication but obviously I'd like to be able to push my
>> code :D
>
> This sounds like a question for the GitHub support rather than the Git
> community.

Erik is right, for any GitHub questions, emailing support@github.com is way better than using this list. The answer to your question, however, is that you have to use a personal access token:

https://help.github.com/articles/providing-your-2fa-security-code#through-the-command-line

You can generate one from this page, in the "Personal Access Tokens" section: https://github.com/settings/applications

Thanks!