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GitHub CLI Authentication

Márk Sági-Kazár
by  Márk Sági-Kazár
Learn how to authenticate with GitHub using the GitHub CLI. Useful in terminals and in iximiuz Labs playgrounds.

Learn how to authenticate with GitHub using the GitHub CLI. Useful in terminals and in iximiuz Labs playgrounds.

Fine-grained access tokens

Fine-grained access tokens offer more granular control over permissions compared to traditional personal access tokens. They allow you to specify exactly what actions a token can perform and on which resources.

Go to the Fine-grained access tokens page to create a new token.

CLI login

You can also authenticate with the GitHub CLI:

gh auth login

This grants a lot of permissions to your GitHub account and is NOT recommended in online playgrounds.

After following the instructions on the screen, you should see something like this:

GitHub CLI login

💡 When using the GitHub CLI in an online playground, using HTTPS protocol is recommended.

gh auth login --git-protocol https

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Márk Sági-Kazár

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How to Author Tutorials on iximiuz Labs

Instead of providing a subpar online editing experience, iximiuz Labs offers a helper CLI tool called labctl, allowing you to use your favorite text editor (or a full-featured IDE) to write content from the comfort of your local machine.

Install labctl CLI

curl -sf https://labs.iximiuz.com/cli/install.sh | sh

This will download and install the latest version of the labctl CLI. You only need to do this once per workstation.

Authorize labctl

labctl auth login

This will open a browser window asking you to authorize labctl to access your account. You need to do it after a fresh install of labctl and repeat it whenever the auth session expires.

Pull tutorial content

labctl content pull tutorial github-cli-authentication-664792a0

This will create a local copy of the tutorial content in a directory named github-cli-authentication-664792a0. You only need to do this once per tutorial.

Stream your changes

labctl content push -fw tutorial github-cli-authentication-664792a0

Run this command in a separate terminal to continuously upload your changes to the server while editing the tutorial in your favorite text editor or IDE.

You can also use labctl to create, list, and delete your content. Learn more about the available commands: labctl content --help

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