HTTP 401 while using 'create' action

[berinle]

I am constantly hitting a HTTP 401 when trying to use

hub create

on my newly created project. Isn't the create action meant to auto create the project on github?

Steps:
~: mkdir -p helloworld
~: cd helloworld
helloworld: echo 'trying out hub gem' > README
helloworld: hub init -g
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/berinle/helloworld/.git/
helloworld(master) ✗: hub add .
helloworld(master) ✗: hub commit -m "first commit"
[master (root-commit) b770670] first commit
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 README
helloworld(master): hub create
error creating repository: Unauthorized (HTTP 401)
helloworld(master):

Please advice

[mislav]

create works for me, so I guess this was either a temporary GitHub issue (known to happen) or your github token is wrong:

git config github.token

[berinle]

Thanks mislav. My token was wrong. It had the old one which has since changed when I updated my pass. Everything works now. Perhaps you folks can make the error message more descriptive. Lovely product!

[nomasprime]

Excuse my noobishness, where do I get token from? I've tried Personal API Access Tokens from Account > Applications but still getting 401...

[mislav]

There is no token anymore. Update hub to the latest version and hub create or other commands that require authentication will ask you for your GitHub username and password and exchange that for an OAuth token which it will store in ~/.config/hub.

[nomasprime]

Thanks @mislav, thought that might be the case. I have no idea why it's not working for me then, put in my creds several times and still getting 401. I'm using Boxen..

[mislav]

What's your hub version? What's the contents of your ~/.config/hub (you should anonymize the OAuth token value if found)? Do you have $GITHUB_USER or $GITHUB_PASSWORD environment variables set by chance?

[nomasprime]

hub version yields:

git version 1.8.2
hub version 1.10.6

~./config/hub doesn't exist.

Only var set for GitHub is BOXEN_GITHUB_LOGIN.

[mislav]

@habitullence So what happens when you do hub create or a similar action? Does it prompt you for your GitHub username and password? Can you paste me the output?

[nomasprime]

@mislav, here you go:

edna-2:puppet-shunit rick$ hub create habitullence/test
github.com username: habitullence
github.com password for habitullence (never stored): 
Error creating repository: Unauthorized (HTTP 401)

I've tried a bunch of times and checked normal login to Github with same creds.

[ElijahLynn]

I am having the same issue as the comment above.

[ElijahLynn]

I think this is related to two factor authentication #399. I will post on that issue instead.

[mislav]

@habitullence: did you have 2-factor auth enabled?

[nomasprime]

@mislav no, should it be?

[mislav]

@habitullence You're not obligated to use it, but I was just checking if you have the same issue as @ElijahLynn. It doesn't seem so.

Is the problem maybe that you're passing the repo name wrong? You're doing hub create habitullence/test, but it should be:

hub create test

It will be created under your user by default.

[nomasprime]

@mislav yep, works great. Thanks

[mislav]

So, in this ticket it turned out that @berinle, @habitullence and @ElijahLynn had 3 separate issues that share the same error message. I have to improve error messages in hub in the future and add a debugging flag that users can set to see what's going on.

[wildeyes]

Hey there, same problem here, using two factor verification, getting a 401 when trying to create -d.

[mislav]

@wildeyes Try to upgrade to master version and try again. The latest stable release doesn't support 2FA yet.

brew upgrade hub --HEAD

[wildeyes]

That's weird, since it asked me for a verfication code. I will upgrade and return here.

[mislav]

@wildeyes Oh, then you have the edge version. Not sure why you're getting a 401. I'm going to add debugging features in the new version of hub when I release it.

Are you using regular GitHub.com or using GH Enterprise? Are you trying to create a repo under your account or under an organization?

[wildeyes]

Using regular GH, Repo under my account.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Mislav Marohnić
[email protected]:

@wildeyes https://github.com/wildeyes Oh, then you have the edge
version. Not sure why you're getting a 401. I'm going to add debugging
features in the new version of hub when I release it.

Are you using regular GitHub.com or using GH Enterprise? Are you trying to
create a repo under your account or under an organization?

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[matthewgoodwin]

So im getting this error as well.. I have had no problems with hub create until now. now I get:
Error creating repository: Unauthorized (HTTP 401) Bad credentials
I have a very old version of hub, but I do have a ./config/hub file.
I do not have 2FA setup, I have one set of SSH keys and one Personal access token..
I have upgraded to OSSierra and everytime I upgrade my mac, something changes..
Im a noob and I dont have much experience troubleshooting git, so please help..
I have
git version 2.8.4 (Apple Git-73)
hub version 1.12.4

[mislav]

@matthewgoodwin It might be that your token stored in ~/.config/hub is outdated. Here's how to fix that:

1. First upgrade to at least hub 2.2.9 or one of the latest prereleases. You can either use brew install hub or download one of the precompiled binaries from the Releases section.
2. Unless you have some GitHub Enterprise configuration in your ~/.config/hub file, delete that whole file. That will force re-authentication.
3. Run hub create again. This will ask you for your GitHub username and your real password. Then it will save a new token in ~/.config/hub and hub should never ask you for the password again.

[matthewgoodwin]

@mislav Thanks for the timely response! I dont have a Github enterprise config to my knowledge. but I also cant seen whats inside this folder as my zsh is denying permission to access this files content..
zsh: permission denied: .config/hub

[mislav]

@matthewgoodwin I can't imagine why you don't have permissions to view files in ~/.config, but it doesn't matter. If that file is the only one in that directory (you can check with sudo ls ~/.config), then simply delete it sudo rm -rf ~/.config and run hub create to reauthenticate.

[matthewgoodwin]

@mislav Im not sure I want to delete the .config dir..
my config directory contains my
git heroku and hub directories..
will this be an issue? should I only remove the hub directory or must I remove the entire .config?

[mislav]

If there are other files in there. you can remove just the ~/.config/hub file, of course.

[matthewgoodwin]

after updating my hub, I actually noticed that I have another heroku dir installed in usr/local while git and hub were also installed in the same directory of my usr/local/Cellar, so I dont think I need anything in the .config dir. Im not certain why I have multiple directories in various places? thanks Ill do some investigating and clean up here!! thanks @mislav

[matthewgoodwin]

all good here, thanks again @mislav !

[tjddbs0401]

I have the same problem here.
I have

• git version 2.25.1
• hub version 2.14.2
  But everytime I try to create one it shows

$ hub create
github.com username: tjddbs0401
github.com password for tjddbs0401 (never stored): 
Error creating repository: Unauthorized (HTTP 401)
Bad credentials

@mislav

[mislav]

@tjddbs0401 I'm sorry, I don't have an idea what could be going wrong there. It seems like you are not entering the right password for your GitHub account. You can try generating and pasting a Personal Access Token instead to see if that helps.

[raelgc]

For people coming from Google search: if you just updated your GitHub token, then you need to edit your ~./config/hub file and update the oauth_token value.