GitHub wants all users to start using a personal access token rather than a password to authenticate. The "brownout" is a temporary insistence (a few days) on setting up a personal access token so that folks can do it before they insist on it forever after August 13th.
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GitHub wants all users to start using a personal access token rather than a password to authenticate. The "brownout" is a temporary insistence (a few days) on setting up a personal access token so that folks can do it before they insist on it forever after August 13th.
How to set up a personal access token:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token
GitHub announcement with August 13th deadline:
"Beginning August 13, 2021, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com."
https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/
Cordially,
Jski