From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: github password policy
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:44:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRp52Y+nJyzTKEPC@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1346f22-b5ee-2c8b-2cef-9f51cd6a45e4@towo.net>
On Aug 16 14:13, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> github have changed their authentication policy not to allow passwords
> anymore.
> So they are asking maintainers to acquire another kind of password (a
> "token"), which I did a while ago.
> But they refuse to support users with the transition, there is no
> "plug-and-play" howto available, except for those who are willing to dive
> into details of authentication stuff and spend a few study hours on that
> useless policy change.
> As I cannot update mintty anymore right now from the git command line, is
> any maintainer here impacted by the same issue and can help out with some
> advice how to get rid of this nuisance?
ssh pubkey works nicely, afaik.
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-16 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-16 12:13 Thomas Wolff
2021-08-16 13:44 ` ASSI
2021-08-16 23:59 ` Doug Henderson
2021-08-17 3:00 ` Brian Inglis
2021-08-18 17:12 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-08-16 14:44 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-08-16 14:46 ` Lee
2021-08-16 17:51 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-08-16 17:59 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2021-08-17 6:39 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-08-16 18:33 ` Jonathan Yong
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