Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled

Hello,

I’m attempting a rollback flow using actions/checkout@v2. The problem is that I need to use a PAT in order to rollback commits that change Github Workflows and when I pass that PAT into actions/checkout, I get an error.

Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled

My workflow:

name: "Dev Deploy"
on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["Versioning"]
    types: [completed]
jobs:
  fail_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Fail
        run: |
          exit 1
  rollback-on-failure:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [fail_job]
    if: always() && needs.fail_job.result == 'failure'
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_TOKEN }}
      - run: chmod +x environment/rollback.sh && ./environment/rollback.sh

The PAT used has the permissions to change workflows, as well as repository permissions. The issue seems to be that the action doesn’t allow me to set a username before it tries to fetch the repository.

[MichaIng]

Another hint: The PAT must have an expiry date, otherwise the same error appears 😅.

[MikulasMascautanu]

I’m also experiencing the same issue. I wanted to add a checkout of another private repo, that lives in the same organisation as the original private repo which the workflow is in.

My code:

     - name: Checkout the private repo in which the workflow lives
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Checkout a public repo to see if it works
        uses: actions/checkout@v2.3.4
        with:
          repository: actions/checkout
          ref: main
      - name: Checkout another private repo in the same organisation
      (and provide a PAT with repo, read:user and user:email permissions)
        uses: actions/checkout@v2.3.4
        with:
          repository: org/private-repo
          ref: master
          token: $MY_PAT

Results: Checkout the private repo in which the workflow lives ✔️ Checkout a public repo to see if it works ✔️ Checkout another private repo in the same organisation ❌

The error: