2 Step Authentication

[johngeorgewright]

A little reminder for people who are using 2 step authentication (I lost a fair while to this 😞 ). You will not be able to use anything other than a SSH connection when using nodegit to operate remotely. If you're finding that any remote operations are just hanging, this is most likely the cause.

Example:

var nodegit = require('nodegit'),
    clone = nodegit.Clone.clone,
    userpassPlaintextNew = nodegit.Cred.userpassPlaintextNew,
    user = 'my-user-name',
    pass = 'a-very-secret-password', 
    path = '/tmp/somewhere',
    options = {
      remoteCallbacks: {
        credentials: function () {
          return userpassPlaintextNew(user, pass);
        }
      }
    };

function url() {
    var url = 'https://'
    url += encodeURIComponent(user);
    url += ':';
    url += encodeURIComponent(pass);
    url += '@github.com/some-user/some-project.git',
    return url;
}

clone(url(), path, options)
  .then(function (repo) {
    console.log('IF YOU\'RE USING 2 STEP AUTH THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN!');
  });

It's very difficult for automated services to get by 2 step authentication...that's why it's there. I'd recommend using other credentials until there's support for some kind of manual intervention.

[tbranyen]

I just tested this with a private repository on my GitHub account (two-way auth). I'm not sure why, but I received a segfault, never saw it even hit the credentials callback.

[maxkorp]

O.o

I can't find anything about 2factor anywhere in the libgit2 docs, or on stack overflow, including searching for libgit2csharp and rugged. We might have to get in touch with them...

[maxkorp]

Added an example from this which should be on master soon of how to get this working.