GitHub Support for password authentication

Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.

This article shows you how to fix it!

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.

2 Steps to fix

(base) [rag@pipdem]$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:RGGH/pipdem.git

replace RGGH with your user (account) name

replace pipdem with your repo name


(base) [rag@pipdem]$ git commit -am "Update"
On branch main
nothing to commit, working tree clean


(base) [rag@pipdem]$ git push --set-upstream origin main


Enumerating objects: 16, done.
Counting objects: 100% (16/16), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
Writing objects: 100% (16/16), 2.40 KiB | 1.20 MiB/s, done.
Total 16 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.


$ ls -al ~/.ssh
# Lists the files in your .ssh directory, 
# (if they exist)

# By default, the filenames of the public keys # are one of the following: id_rsa.pub id_ecdsa.pub id_ed25519.pub # If you don’t have an existing public # and private key pair then generate a # new SSH key

Check the GitHub instructions on how to generate a new SSH key:

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@2.22/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

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