Caching-Github-Auth-Tokens.md

Caching Github Auth Tokens

If you ever want to git push or git pull or etc. from the cluster, you used to just have to give them your password. For some reason, they decided to make the process more complicated by creating these authentication tokens that are randomly generated and impossible to remember. You'll have to generate your own personal access token and cache it to make sure that you don't have to input the token every time

Largely following instructions from this link

Step-by-step guide

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens
2. In the top right, click Generate new token and click the Generate new token (Classic) option
3. Here, we'll make the token
   • You'll need to specify an expiration date for the token, make it whatever you want. Once the token expires, you'll have to do all of this again :(
   • You are also recquired to add a note
   • You then need to give it specific permissions. The most basic ones are repo, read:org (under admin:org), and workflow for basic github operations. Click those boxes and any other specific permissions you may need

This is what my settings look like:

4. Click generate token when you're done
5. You'll be taken to a page with the newly generated token. Copy it to your clipboard
6. Log into midway/beagle3
7. Install Github CLI, would recommend doing this through anaconda.
   • conda install gh --channel conda-forge
8. Enter gh auth login into the command prompt and follow instructions
   • You'll get a list of different options
   • Account --> GitHub.com
   • Protocol --> HTTPS
   • Authentication --> Paste an authentication token
9. Paste the token
10. git push and git pull to your heart's content