<\/span><\/h2>\nThe issue started when I wanted to clone a repo. SourceTree would just tell me that the URL is not valid.<\/p>\n
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\r\nThis is not valid source path \/ URL\r\n<\/pre>\nLooking in the details, the usage of a personal access token is the way to go now.<\/p>\n
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\r\nError: remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.\r\nremote: Please see https:\/\/github.blog\/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations\/ for more information.\r\nfatal: Authentication failed for\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/span>What I tried and did not work<\/span><\/h2>\nI tried a lot of stuff I found on the internet. I generated a personal access token. It is often stated to use the token as password, however, this did not work. I also tried to set up the account as OAuth, this seemed to work but resulted in the same error message. <\/p>\n
<\/span>The solution<\/span><\/h2>\nAfter I have been pissed off enough, I decided to use SSH. In order to do that, you have to create a SSH key pair. SourceTree installs “puttygen.exe”. You can find it in the installation folder.<\/p>\n
\r\nC:\\Users\\da\\AppData\\Local\\SourceTree\\app-3.4.6\\tools\\putty\r\n<\/pre>\nI generated a key, saved the private key to a file and copied the public key to the clipboard.<\/p>\n
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Now the public key needs to be added to GitHub. This can be done in the settings.<\/p>\n
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Enter a name and paste the key.<\/p>\n
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Now the private key needs to be set in the SSH Client Configuration section.<\/p>\n
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After that I was able to clone the repos using the SSH link.<\/p>\n
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