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Can't sign in to GitHub Enterprise

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Description

Can’t sign in to Enterprise using username and password - see #2064 Then trying “Sign in using your browser” and it doesn’t work either

Version

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 0.6.1

OS version: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Try signing in to Enterprise
  2. Enter my enterprise server address
  3. Try username and password - receive 403 (see #2064
  4. Try “Sign in using browser”
  5. Get error request to https://<server>/api/v3/user failed, reason unable to verify the first certificate

Expected behaviour: Authentication to work

Actual behaviour: Can’t authenticate

Reproduces how often: 100%

Logs

Can’t locate the log file for new GitHubDesktop Beta

Additional Information

Our Enterprise server is behind a firewall and is self-signed. I can provide the output of certutil against the servers certifcate, but don’t want to post publically.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

1reaction
joshabercommented, Aug 31, 2017

It sounds like this was fixed 💥

1reaction
GortMcTabscommented, Aug 8, 2017

FYI - I tried this on a new install and I was able to login successfully with the initial prompts.

v 0.7.2

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