Developers affected by the deprecation of password authentication will need to switch to authentication using personal access tokens through HTTPS or SSH when working with Git, or enable GitHub ...

GitHub says the affected services will now have to be authenticated using personal access tokens, SSH keys, OAuth tokens, or GitHub App installation tokens. (Its first-party apps are unaffected by ...

It was a poor decision to remove GitHub’s support for password authentication. Working with GitHub becomes more difficult, and it’s much harder for beginners to get started with Git and GitHub.

Salesforce said that, once notified by GitHub last Wednesday, it disabled the compromised OAuth tokens and the account that they came from.

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.