stephencelis/ghi

ghi shouldn't prompt for your password

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#312 opened on Jun 16, 2016

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Description

It's bad practice to teach users to enter their passwords into random places; I'd really love to see ghi set a stronger security bar.

There are probably a few different ways to not prompt for passwords (including becoming a full-fledged Oauth client); here's one that works right now, and could be implemented just with a documentation fix:

Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens and generate a personal access token, give it repo perms, then run git config --global ghi.token <that token>.

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Investigate how ghi currently prompts for password and implement token based authentication using GitHub personal access tokens.
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