Using Personal Access Tokens on GitHub

When I attempted to push to one of my repositories on GitHub, I encountered the error message, “Support for password authentication was removed. Please use a personal access token instead.” After researching the issue, I discovered that GitHub no longer supports password authentication and only supports personal access tokens.

How do you use a personal access token? I found the steps on Stack Overflow (link provided below).

1. Go to your GitHub account page and select:
   • Settings
   • Developer Settings
   • Personal Access Token
   • Generate New Token (then enter your password)
   • Check the boxes for the permissions you want on the form displayed on that page.
   • Click Generate Token and copy the token. It will look something like this: ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjkdhbtzuzgthdvfsrta. Note that this token is only displayed once, so make sure to save it.
2. Next, open your repository directory and type:

   git remote set-url origin https://token@github.com/username/repo.git
   

   where token is your personal access token, username is your GitHub username, and repo is the name of your repository.

3. Done. You can now push your repository to GitHub without password authentication.

Source: Stack Overflow