Atom Github Plugin permanent login request

Question

I use Atom as my editor and, since I use Github, I cloned my repo with github desktop and then linked Atom to that with my account's token.

The problem is that every single time I interact with the repo through atom (push, pull, fetch...) it asks me for my login information, even if it has my token.

I looked this issue on the internet and on the GitHub repo of Atom but all I found was this, which is kinda similar but not the same since my Atom remembers my token but still asks for the username and password:

Is there any way in order for Atom to save my credentials? It's annoying when pushing or pulling often.

Possible duplicate of [Git keeps prompting me for password](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7773181/git-keeps-prompting-me-for-password) — Exercise To The Reader, Aug 31 '17 at 15:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '18 at 18:09

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There is! Open up your command line and type

git config --global --edit

Enter

 [user]
      name = yourname
      email = yourEmail
      pass = yourPassword
      password = yourPassword

and finally save it and restart atom.

answered Aug 07 '18 at 18:09

Jordan Casey

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '21 at 07:53

Since using your plain-old password is about to be deprecated, now is a good time to update this answer.

You should instead follow the steps to generate a secure personal access token.

This should work in conjuction with either the UI prompt or the command interface noted above with git config --global --edit.

There are some bugs with the prompts/GitHub Identity in Atom that appear to still need working out, so don't be surprised if you have to re-enter this especially after Atom updates for now:

Hope this clears things up for the foreseeable future.

Atom Github Plugin permanent login request

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