Question: how to solve could not read Username for 'https://github.com'

[Ronald Dehuysser]

Dear,

I'm trying to use your plugin to update the version on my Readme.md and it works using drone exec on my local machine.

In drone itself however, I receive the following error:

latest: Pulling from appleboy/drone-git-push
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2 | Digest: sha256:b646fd6089dfdac9d86ce9b82225f2758a4c9e9340b3b86e68471395bc3d2e05
3 | Status: Image is up to date for appleboy/drone-git-push:latest
4 | + git add --all
5 | + git diff-index --quiet HEAD --ignore-submodules
6 | + git commit -m Update readme to new version [CI SKIP]
7 | + git push origin HEAD:master
8 | fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
9 | exit status 128

This is my config:

  - name: push updated readme
    image: appleboy/drone-git-push
    settings:
      branch: master
      remote_name: origin
      ssh_key:
        from_secret: GITHUB_SSH_KEY
      force: false
      commit: true
      commit_message: "Update readme to new version [CI SKIP]"
      author_name: drone-bot
      author_email: [e-mail]

I think it might be related to the fact that I have 2FA enabled. See https://jacopretorius.net/2018/05/git-error-could-not-read-username.html

Thanks,
Ronald

[Ronald Dehuysser]

one year later, I still suffer from this problem - is there a way to force git to use ssh instead of https?

[Bo-Yi Wu]

You face the problem if 2FA enabled? right? I want to reproduce your problem.

[Ronald Dehuysser]

I may have a solution - the next release I will try it.

See https://github.com/jobrunr/jobrunr/blob/master/.drone.yml#L186-L205

Thanks for getting back at me!

[Bo-Yi Wu]

OK. I closed the issue.