Best way to handle Github authentication in WSL?

[jhofman]

@SoyBison: a few students are having trouble with authenticating their GitHub accounts on the command line. It seems most are using https access to their repos and then having to type their username and a personal access token to push.

let's find a better way that's low cost and doesn't involve installing special tools?

can you check here for options that work on Ubuntu on Windows?

i believe i used credential.helper in the past, but don't face this myself because i use ssh instead of https (but don't think that's worth the hassle for them to set up).

[SoyBison]

Github has phased out support for HTTPS using credential.helper, so they will have to either use the github cli or set up ssh keys. Or use the authentication tokens.

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account
The official instructions for linux worked fine for me on WSL, but I will have to set up a new ssh key today anyway so I can test it.

[SoyBison]

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account

Just tested it on a fresh ubuntu for WSL install and these two links handled it perfectly.