2FA give problems when pushing to GitHub

Question

I've clone a project on GitHub on my Raspberry Pi, create a new branch and push everything to the repository. For this I needed next commands:

git clone https://www.github.com/heinpauwelyn/my_repo git checkout -b raspberry git push origin raspberry 

The problem I've got is that I can't push the branch to GitHub.com. I need to enter my username and password, but I can't use 2FA for that. Is this a bug in Git or GitHub and is there a way to get an authentication key and enter it?

I'll not enable the 2FA on GitHub.

Answer 1

with 2FA you have to create a personal access token to use as a password when authenticating to GitHub on the command line with HTTPS URLs: https://help.github.com/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use/#when-2fa-is-enabled

or you can clone with ssh https://help.github.com/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use/#cloning-with-ssh-urls (may also be useful: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-an-ssh-key/)

Answer 2

You have to generate an access token and use the access token instead the password. For example:

$ git clone https://github.com/username/repo.git Username: your_username Password: your_token 

Doc: https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line