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octogit login <username> <password>

I am updating the site now.

Is it possible to use an oauth-based thing instead? I don't know if github lets you do much with oauth, I'm just a little wary of storing my password in what would presumably be plaintext.

As soon as they implement a CLI based OAuth, I will definitely add it.

I understand your concerns, but if someone has access to your machine your Github password is the least of your worries.

Hmm, GitHub has SSL certificate authentication. Could that be used for login?

Why would you need that?

You can just request a token[1] using the GitHub API on first load and then use that. I implemented that recently in Pulley[2], which is a GitHub Pull Request Lander.

[1]: http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#create-a-new-authoriza...

[2]: https://github.com/jeresig/pulley

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