I was facing same error when I was trying to clone a repository on a PC with freshly installed operating system. I was using Git bash as my Git client. When I ran Git’s command to clone a repository it was not prompting me for user id and password which will be used for authentication. It was … Read more
I want to access a URL which requires a username/password. I’d like to try accessing it with curl. Right now I’m doing something like: I get an error. I guess I need to specify a username and password along with the above command. How can I do that?
Attention: This method saves the credentials in plaintext on your PC’s disk. Everyone on your computer can access it, e.g. malicious NPM modules. Run then provide a username and password and those details will then be remembered later. The credentials are stored in a file on the disk, with the disk permissions of “just user readable/writable” but … Read more