How to use https for authentication from EGit to GitHub

Question

I am trying to setup EGit to work with GitHub with https authentication, instead of the default ssh. (My reason is that I am a teacher, and some of my students do their work from different machines, so it's not convenient to rely on ssh keys stored on disk.) Has anyone gotten this to work? When I try doing a "Push to Upstream" using https, I get the unhelpful error message "An internal Exception occured during push: https://espertus@github.com/MillsCollegeMobileAppDev2011/test.git: not authorized".

I am using Eclipse 3.6.2 (Helios) with versions 0.11.3 of Eclipse EGit (Incubation), Eclipse EGit - Source (Incubation), and EGit Mylyn (Incubation). My Destination Git Repository settings are:

• Location
  • URI: https://espertus@github.com/MillsCollegeMobileAppDev2011/test.git
  • Host: github.com
  • Repository path: /MillsCollegeMobileAppDev2011/test.git
• Connection
  • Protocol: https
  • Port: [unset]
• Authentication
  • User: espertus
  • Password: ........
  • Store in Secure Store: [checked]

Answer 1

you need input your github account password in:

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Authentication

User: espertus

Password: HERE

Store in Secure Store: [checked]

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enjoy it! :)