PERSONAL ACCESS TOKEN ON GITHUB
PERSONAL ACCESS TOKEN ON GITHUB PURPOSE While doing git clone or git pull if you face and issue and getting below error remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead. You have to create a personal access token with your git handle. Authentic in terminal with this PAT ( personal access token) REASON While doing any git operation, now GitHub is not accepting authentication with password You need to add PAT. Follow below steps to create PAT and authenticate on your local machine STEPS CREATE PERSONAL ACCESS TOKEN Login to GitHub from the browser. Go to Settings - > Developer setting -> Personal access token -> Create new token Authenticate Full out required fields Select expiration period We want to access the repository from the command line. For this don't forget to select "repo" option Click "Generate token" Copy generated token. Your tokens are like your password...