Cannot sign in to Github account

Cannot sign in to Github. When I click on “Clone repository” under SCM tab and provide the repo url and folder, it asks me to sign in to Github. The authorization page opens in a new tab:

After clicking on “Continue”, the following error occurs:

I tried to generate “Personal Access Token” on Github, then entered that here:

This did not work either.

• Web Browser: Microsoft Egde (Chromium)
• Local OS: Windows 10
• Remote OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 (LTS)
• Remote Architecture: x64
• code-server --version: 3.4.1

[jinexists-oldaccount]

I had the same issue and was able to figure out a solution. I took the url that a regular instance of VSCode spits out and used it to reverse engineer how the url is put together.

A auth url from code-server looks like this: https://vscode-auth.github.com/authorize/?callbackUri=https://example.com/callback%3Fvscode-requestId%xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx%26vscode-scheme%3Dcode-oss%26vscode-authority%3Dvscode.github-authentication%26vscode-path%3D%252Fdid-authenticate&scope=repo&state=state-from-code-server&responseType=code

What I did was take the state parameter at the end of the auth url given by code-server and insert it into the url below which is derived from the url a normal version of VSCode spits out.

A final url will look like this: https://vscode-auth.github.com/authorize/?callbackUri=vscode://vscode.github-authentication/did-authenticate&scope=repo&state=insert-state-from-code-server-here&responseType=code

After going to the page you will get an auth token that looks something like this: vscode://vscode.github-authentication/did-authenticate?code=secretcode&state=magicstate

Then, back in code-server you can click signing into github.com in the task bar and paste the auth token.

Hope this helps!

[garyhtou]

I had the same issue and was able to figure out a solution. I took the url that a regular instance of VSCode spits out and used it to reverse engineer how the url is put together.

A auth url from code-server looks like this: https://vscode-auth.github.com/authorize/?callbackUri=https://example.com/callback%3Fvscode-requestId%xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx%26vscode-scheme%3Dcode-oss%26vscode-authority%3Dvscode.github-authentication%26vscode-path%3D%252Fdid-authenticate&scope=repo&state=state-from-code-server&responseType=code

What I did was take the state parameter at the end of the auth url given by code-server and insert it into the url below which is derived from the url a normal version of VSCode spits out.

A final url will look like this: https://vscode-auth.github.com/authorize/?callbackUri=vscode://vscode.github-authentication/did-authenticate&scope=repo&state=insert-state-from-code-server-here&responseType=code

After going to the page you will get an auth token that looks something like this: vscode://vscode.github-authentication/did-authenticate?code=secretcode&state=magicstate

Then, back in code-server you can click signing into github.com in the task bar and paste the auth token.

Hope this helps!

It gave me Sign in failed: Error: network error