Issue using ssh keys to login to github

[TylerLeonhardt]

    Hi,

I've just read the full issue and I have the exact same issue.
I'm using ssh keys to login to github, this works everywhere except in vscode.

It does popup the browser login window

But clicking signing with browser just goes to a blank localhost page most of the time, once it did show me a successfully login you can go back to the app, but in vscode it was still complaining.

npx @emacs-grammarly/keytar-cli find-creds -s vscode-insidersvscode.github-authentication
Returns

[
  {
    account: 'github.auth',
    password: 'AQxlmzCMdedeFgtEgtjogfetgwt/lfsAefgAgteagt3geugtYerSgetOYrDD\n' +
      'Blablablabal(removed)'
  }
]

And this is Github Auth Log:

This only happens on my windows machine and funny to note that while trying to solve this, every single commits had a different user... not sure why but it might be related:

Originally posted by @melMass in #160649 (comment)

[yume-chan]

To me the GitHub login popup only shows when I'm working on a private repo but incorrectly using https protocol for remote URL.

[melMass]

Yep it happens only for https cloned repo but strangely also on public ones for me.

Someone mentioned it not being related to vscode "core"
I can debug if it's not but I'm 90% sure it is.
The remaining 10% behing the other official extensions "GitHub PR" etc...

[yume-chan]

Oh yes it should also happen to https cloned public repositories, as long as the user has enabled 2FA on GitHub. I haven't work with public repos for some times.

It may still relate to vscode "core" because I remember it intercepts git authentication, but 100% not related to ssh keys (as stated in this issue's title)

[melMass]

Ok it seems I solved the issue...
It was related to two things.

• The first one was because only user.username & user.email were set in my git config. Somehow vscode's github extension requires user.name, it was quite hard to find as the error report weren't consistent/coherent but this is what solved the ability to "fetch/pull/push" from vscode.

• The other issue that might be related to the popup (my guess is some kind of conflict between the two) was because when updating to Windows 11 I was asked if I wanted to use my Microsoft account to login... This messed up a bunch of stuffs like file permissions, introducing a new "user" and this.

I will close the issue but feel free to re-open

Edit: I cannot close it as I did not open it 😄

Thanks for the support.

[Tyriar]

@TylerLeonhardt is this caused by the github auth provider?

[TylerLeonhardt]

@Tyriar no this dialog doesn't come from the GitHub Auth extension

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