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Shafia Rahman Chowdhury
Shafia Rahman Chowdhury

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Support for password authentication was removed. Please use a personal access token instead.

While pushing some codes into your GitHub repository you may encounter the error "Support for password authentication was removed. Please use a personal access token instead." as shown in the picture below

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Starting from August 13, 2021, GitHub has stopped accepting passwords for verifying Git operations on user accounts. Instead, you will need to use a Personal Access Token (PAT) in place of your password. To add a PAT to your system, you can follow the steps outlined below.

Step 1: Go to your GitHub Account and then go to the Settings(click on your profile account and you will find the Settings option there)

Step 2: Scroll down and at the sidebar you will see the Developer Settings option. Click on Developer Settings.

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Step 3: Click on Personal access tokens and then click on Tokens (classic)

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Step 4: Click on Generate new token and then click on Generate new token (classic)

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Step 5: Fill-up the Note field, select No expiration and then select the checkboxes as shown in the picture

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Step 6: Click on the Generate token. Your token is created!.

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Step 7: Copy the token and paste it on the password field of the terminal.

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Your code got successfully pushed into your repository!

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However, after applying your token you may face this error.

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Visit this blog(https://dev.to/shafia/common-github-issues-beginners-may-face-29bb) and follow the steps given in Error 3 Solution 1.

Happy coding!

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Charukirti Chougule

really helpful

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petenet001

thank you so much, good help

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Emerson Cabrera

Great! It is just what I was needing. Thank you.

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Andrius Siupinys

Thanks

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JVS

Thanks for sharing!

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João Pedro Doni

man, you save my school work, thank you very much <3

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matthewkhakis

Thanks! it worked :)

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hungndmath

Beautiful sharing.

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Vansh agarwal

i am really thankful for this !!!!!

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Techie@232

Thanks bro!