Cannot sign in to Github account

[subhamayd2]

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

[code-asher]

Definitely need to look into this, I took a swing a few weeks ago but wasn't able to figure it out at the time.

[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!

[subhamayd2]

@jinexists Thanks. It works. 😁

[nhooyr]

So I guess we're spitting out the URL incorrectly for some reason.

[code-asher]

Looking at that URL, maybe we need to add a handler for vscode://?

Related: #1571

[imnobaka]

OMG, I just couldn't find your post on my own googling. Luckily Quietsy from the linuxserver group helped point me your way. I will say that the structure changed a little bit for me so I'll paste my case for future reference. Thank you again for troubleshooting this.

https://vscode-auth.github.com/authorize/?callbackUri=vscode://vscode.github-authentication/did-authenticate&scope=repo&state=PASTE-CODE-HERE&responseType=code

https://vscode-auth.github.com/authorize/?callbackUri=https://code.example.com/callback%XXXXX-requestId%XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXX%26vscode-scheme%3XXXX-XXXX%26vscode-authority%XXXXXXgithub-authentication%26vscode-path%3D%252Fdid-authenticate&scope=read:user repo user:email&state=COPY-CODE-HERE&responseType=code

[mal5305]

thanks for the workaround, worked for me! this was driving me nuts!

[agneevX]

I get this error:

The input did not matched the expected format

Is there absolutely no way add GitHub sign-in other than this?

[Heath123]

I can confirm this bug (it's probably already confirmed enough though)

[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

[raestrada95]

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!

Hi i appreciate the help this solution worked perfect for me.