Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) with GitHub in Bamboo
Problem
When attempting to authenticate with a GitHub repository that is secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) via HTTPS, you receive the following error in Bamboo:
Failed to load data from GitHub.com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitHubAccessor$GitHubException: Must specify two-factor authentication OTP code.Cause
2FA is enabled.
Resolution
To work around 2FA in GitHub you will need to set up a personal access token and use this instead of your password. The steps to do this are as follows:
- Go to your Personal Access Tokens settings in GitHub.
- Click on the Generate new token button.
- Name the token something descriptive.
- Select which scopes you wish to grant this token.
- Click the Generate token button.
- Copy the token and use it as a password in Linked Repositories.
You can find more information about this on GitHub's help here.
The minimum permissions / scopes required for the Personal Access Token for Bamboo to retrieve the list of repositories and source code from GitHub are as follows:
repo for private (and public) repositories or
public_repo & user to restrict access to just public repositories.
Last modified on Oct 17, 2017
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