Accessing github when having 2 factor authentication enabled

Hi all,

I am having trouble when trying to push a commit from Matlab 2019b, it asks me for username and password (which I provide), but then it does not ask for the code that I receive by sms on my phone..As it is, I can't push a commit from Matlab unless I turn off two factor authentication, which I really would not want to do.

Is there a way to work around this issue?

Thank you

[Athrey Ranjith Krishnanunni]

Consider using GitHub Personal Access Tokens, as mentioned in Russel Galyon's answer here.

Answer 1

[Sam Warner]

This has been superceded by https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core. Really easy to use. After installing the first Git transaction requests the authentication information, and then stores for the subsequent transactions.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/git-credential-manager-for-mac-and-linux/