Can I use GitHub's 2-Factor Authentication with TortoiseGit?

Question

We like TortoiseGit, and want to take advantage of GitHub's 2-Factor Authentication...but the two don't seem to want to work together.

Answer 1

The GitHub blog post about 2-Factor Authentication mentions that you can generate a "personal access token", that can be used in place of a password when 2-Factor Auth is enabled:

I'm not sure if it will actually work with TortoiseGit, but maybe you can give it a try? You can generate an access token at the Authorized applications settings page:

Answer 2

To compliment Cupcake's answer, use the Personal Access token feature within GitHub.com while using TortoiseGit:

1. Set up 2-step auth.

2. Set up a personal access token - taking note of the generated token (use the Copy to clipboard button next to the generated token).

3. Set TortoiseGit to remember your password as detailed here.

4. Now perform a pull operation on GitHub.com, enter your username, but instead of using your normal password, use the token that was generated in step #2.

5. Perform another pull operation on GitHub.com to ensure the token is remembered.

Answer 3

Once you create a Personal Access Token in github (see: https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token), go to your TortoiseGit settings for your repository, then go to the local config like so:

After that, edit the URL to the repository, in the format of github username:access_token@rest/of/the/url.git, like so:

Worked for me. Was able to push code with no problems.

Answer 4

In case someone has the same problem - using access tokens with TortoiseGit works in general, though for some reason I couldn't force it to use normal authentication prompt, so I had to do git clone https://ghusername:accesstoken@github.com/repo.git

Answer 5

This seems to be around for a while and thanks to "Pawel Gorczynski's" answer above I managed to get this to work.

In a specific repository open the '~/repo/.git/config' file and create a line as follows:

[credential "https://GHUserName:GHPersonalAccessToken@github.com/GHUserName/GHRepository"]

GHUserName = Your user name on GitHub not your email.
GHPersonalAccessToken = The entire token string generated at https://github.com/settings/tokens
GHRepository = Name of the repository this access token was made for, note '.git' has been excluded.

You can find or create the config file within '~/repo/.git/config' the config file has no extension and should already exist.

Answer 6

You will have to generate access token to pull/push code in Github having two factor authentication using tortoise . Use this token as password.

Here are the additional steps –

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use/

https://github.com/settings/tokens