Enabled 2FA for GitHub on Android Phone…FreeOTP app.
Enabling 2FA caused me problems doing a git clone on the command line! The solution was to generate a “Personal access token (PAT)”.
I selected “read:packages” on “Generate Token” which didn’t work!
Googling didn’t help various solutions said to…
use PAT for username & <ENTER>for password.
use PAT for username & PAT for password.
If private (it was) use “git remote set-url origin https://url” instead of “git clone“
My solution which was to just try something else (educated guess)
added “repro” to “Generate Token” and it worked!
bill@billb-MS-7B79 ~/Mystuff/Python3 $ git clone https://github.com/user/[repro].git
Cloning into ‘parseJob’…
Username for ‘https://github.com’: [Username]
Password for ‘https://user@github.com’: [enter Personal access token]
remote: Enumerating objects: 22, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (22/22), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13/13), done.
remote: Total 22 (delta 9), reused 21 (delta 8), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (22/22), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
bill@billb-MS-7B79 ~/Mystuff/Python3 $