Setting up a username and password in Git
This article demonstrates the steps to set up a GitHub username and password in Linux to avoid having to authenticate for every GitHub action.
Set up your username and password in Git (GitHub/GitLab)
To set up your GitHub username and password in Linux, run the following git command.
git config --global credential.helper store
This command saves the username and password in plain text on the local computer.
When you pull or push to a GitHub repository, you will be asked to enter your username and password. Once you enter these two for the first time, they will be remembered in the future. If you have enabled GitHub's two-factor authentication, use an access token instead of a password.
Set username and password demo
This demo will use an existing repository. We will set up a password and username for our GitHub account to avoid having to authenticate every time we push to or pull from GitHub.
We will create a new file and push it to the GitHub repository, setting up our username and password first. We will also create another file that can be pushed to the GitHub repository without authentication.
Run the following command git config --global credential.helper storeas shown below.
We create a new python file in our repository, print Hi there.
We add the new file to git and Add print.pycommit all changes with the message
We push new changes to the GitHub repository, and we need to authenticate for the first time to save the username and password on your local machine. If you have two-factor authentication enabled, use the GitHub access token instead of your password.
Let's create another Python file that adds two integers and prints the sum.
We also add the new python files to git and Add add.pycommit all changes with the message
We pushed our changes to the remote GitHub repository and this time we were not asked to authenticate because we had successfully saved our password and username on our local machine.
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