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Replace references to Lastpass with Bitwarden
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rogerssam committed Nov 29, 2023
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[Securing your account with two-factor authentication (2FA)](https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/securing-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication-2fa)

If you don't already use a password manager such as 1Password, this is a great time to start!
If you don't already use a password manager such as 1Password or Bitwarden, this is a great time to start!
Among other benefits, these apps can serve as an authenticator for 2FA.

Turning on 2FA is recommended, but optional.
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You won't be able to see this token again, so don't close or navigate away from this browser window until you store the PAT locally.
Copy the PAT to the clipboard, anticipating what we'll do next: trigger a prompt that lets us store the PAT in the Git credential store.

Sidebar about storing your PAT: If you use a password management app, such as 1Password or LastPass (highly recommended!), you might want to add this PAT (and its *Note*) to the entry for GitHub.
Sidebar about storing your PAT: If you use a password management app, such as 1Password or Bitwarden (highly recommended!), you might want to add this PAT (and its *Note*) to the entry for GitHub.
Storing your PAT in the Git credential store is a semi-persistent convenience, sort of like a browser cache or "remember me" on a website, but it's quite possible you will need to re-enter your PAT in the future.
You could decide to embrace the impermanence of your PAT and, if it is somehow removed from the store, you'll just re-generate a new PAT and re-enter it.
If you accept the default 30-day expiration period, this is a workflow you'll be using often anyway.
But if you create long-lasting tokens or want to play around with the functions for setting or clearing your Git credentials, it can be handy to have your own record of your PAT in a secure place, like 1Password or LastPass.
But if you create long-lasting tokens or want to play around with the functions for setting or clearing your Git credentials, it can be handy to have your own record of your PAT in a secure place, like 1Password or Bitwarden.

### Put your PAT into the local Git credential store

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