he UI does not appear to allow this; when write:packages is selected, I am unable to deselect the parent repo scope, or any child repo scope.

Same issue creating my token

How does one edit an existing PAT’s scopes? There doesn’t seem to be an option to do anything except delete one that I can see.
I was able to create a PAT without the repo scope by modifying the create token POST request with a proxy.

The access tokens appear as a list, which I guess is where you can see the delete button. The access token description appears to me as blue, bold text. It is a link. Clicking the link will take you to a page where you can modify the scopes. (I agree this doesn’t seem especially intuitive when there is a button for delete and not for edit).

Even after creating the PAT, saving it, then attempting to edit the saved PAT’s scopes, it’s not possible to keep write:packages and remove repo scope 😦

Yup; it appears that it’s no longer possible to remove the repo scope through the UI if you have the write packages scope (although I’m pretty sure you could do it a few weeks ago).

It still seems to work when modifying the form through the browser console and then saving it.

eg. by using

[...document.querySelectorAll(`input[disabled=disabled]`)]
   .filter(i => i.value.includes('repo') || i.value === 'security_events')
   .forEach(i => i.checked = false)

Not that I recommend doing that 🤠

@ziegfried,

I admire your tenacity! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

A more low tech workaround is to navigate to the following url:
https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=write:packages

Hopefully this issue will be fixed soon!

Thanks @jcansdale! That worked! Just added delete:packages to the scopes (as mentioned in the docs):

https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=write:packages,delete:packages

I am new with git,
I
While I was trying to clone a repository, I entered this error message:
fatal: Authentication failed for ‘https://github.com/Bodundeft/alx-pre_course.git/’
root@5eea4a03ae82:/# git clone
Cloning into ‘alx-pre_course’…
Password failed
remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see Token authentication requirements for Git operations | The GitHub Blog for more information.
fatal: Authentication failed for
root@5eea4a03ae82:/# git clone

Pleased, I need help to get this sorted out.

Thanks in advance!!