git suddenly started putting up a dialog instead of asking for my password on the command line

[Joel Rees]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:39 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 16:25, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Git has suddenly started putting up a dialog box to ask for my
> > credentials instead of asking for my credentials at the command line.
> >
> > I found the suggestion to set the following git configuration,
> >
> >     git config --global credential.modalPrompt false
> >
> > but it doesn't change anything.
> >
> > Any suggestions what I might have installed, or what update might have
> > changed this behavior?
>
> There are too many variables to say just yet.

That's why I'm hoping someone has some suggestions.

> Just standalone local Git, or talking to a remote repo such as Github or Gitlab?
>
> If a remote Git host, which one? How did you authenticate to it before?

Git to a repository on the osdn.net servers.
(https://osdn.net/projects/splitstack-runtimelib/)

> E.g. in $DAYJOB I usually use Github. I do have password-based login,

It's been several months since I did a push.

> but with 2-factor authentication as well (for 1 particular repo).

I don't believe in 2 factor.

> However from the command line I use ssh to pull and push,
> authenticated using GNUPG.

I supply the password to my local ssh keystore at the terminal command line
when I do a push to my stuff on osdn.

> I have created a key and uploaded it to Github so it knows I'm me and
> so I never enter any passwords; I unlock the key locally before use. I
> used to do this manually with `ssh-add` but now I've added it to my
> startup scripts.

Hmm. I probably need to check whether OSDN has my public key.
But that hasn't changed in the time since I last did a push.

-- 
Joel Rees

http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html