Documentation and/or command to update credentials

[jroper]

I got an email from GitHub today asking me to regenerate the access token that hub uses to the new format, which I did. So I now have the new token... what do I do with it? I run hub help, nothing in there about authentication, tokens, configuration files, etc. I visit https://hub.github.com/, nothing there about tokens, authentication, configuration files. I go to https://github.com/github/hub, nothing there either. I try running a hub command, it just tells me Bad credentials, no instructions of how to update my credentials or anything. So what do I do with the token I just generated? I eventually searched issues for configuration file, and found that the configuration file for hub is ~/.config/hub, I opened that, pasted in my token, and I'm good to go. But I shouldn't have to search unrelated issues to get the answer to something is basic as this, there should at least be documentation on how to update the token, and maybe even a command to let you set a new token for when you get emails from GitHub asking you to regenerate tokens.

[Birdi7]

I totally agree with this issue. Also, if you've deleted the ~/.config/hub file, then there is no way to configure hub with any credentials. The pull-request command asks for username & password, and then prints 404 Not Found, as I have 2FA enabled

[jroper]

I believe when it asks you for your password, you're supposed to enter your token. There's a PR to update the prompt to ask for a token rather than a password, but I'm starting to learn this repo seems dead.

[foursixnine]

@jroper https://mislav.net/2020/01/github-cli/ looks like so...

@mislav would you be so kind and either mention if this repo/app is out of maintenance and/pr archieve the repo stating where to go to? So that people don't try to solve problems that aren't going to be merged... (until somebody decides to fork I guess)

[hiddenist]

I don't seem to be able to set my credentials at all from the command line (hitting enter just displays ^M using zsh in my Mac terminal rather than entering my username). Haven't been able to find documentation related to it at all yet!

[mislav]

Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone. We absolutely need better behavior and better documentation around authenticating. For the time being, I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #2655 (comment)