Issue
I recently got an email from Github telling me that git will be moving away from passwords and towards authentication keys for committing and pushing changes. How would I set up this authentication key and tell Eclipse to use this key instead of the password I gave it originally?
Solution
First, create a PAT (Personnal Access Token)
Second, in Eclipse, delete your current credential, and on the next push, Eclipse will ask for them again (GitHub username, and your token -- PAT -- as a password)
See "How to make Egit remember password and username?"
- From Eclipse toolbar navigate to
Window > Preferences > Security > Secure Storage > Contents Tab > [Default Secure Storage] > GIT >"whatever github url" - Select the url and delete the current user.
- restart Eclipse
Answered By - VonC
