Personal Access Tokens

Assumptions

• Git installed
• Skynet / Forgejo account

Why

The usual way of authentication when working with remote git repositories is SSH, unfortunately we aren't able to do that with our git server. You could use username and password however that is less secure and inconvenient, personal access tokens on the other hand are a more convenient and secure alternative.

Personal access tokens make it so you don't have to use username / password to authenticate, you can authenticate once when cloning and that's it.

How

Go to this page and click generate token
Give it a name and select read and write for repository permissions
Copy it once its generated

Note : Do not share your access token with anyone, if its compromised delete it, this can be done easily here and prevents it from being used.

When cloning a repository, use the token like so..
git clone https://<token>@forgejo.skynet.ie/<repo>

You now should be able to push to the repository without being prompted for username / password.