GitHub

Authenticating Git and GitHub CLI over SSH

Prerequisites Install GitHub CLI if you haven’t already brew install gh Check that you are logged out. gh auth status You are not logged into any GitHub hosts. Run gh auth login to authenticate. If you’re still logged in, logout. gh auth status github.com ✓ Logged in to github.com as tobyscott25 (keyring) ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol. ✓ Token: gho_************************************ ✓ Token scopes: gist, read:org, repo, workflow gh auth logout ✓ Logged out of github....

8 January 2024 · 4 min · Toby Scott
Touch ID on MacBook

How to configure Touch ID to authorise sudo commands on macOS

The other day I was watching one of NetworkChuck’s recent videos where he was running through a bunch of shell commands for Mac, and one stuck out to me in particular… The ability to configure Touch ID to authorise sudo commands! 🤯 Edit the following file: sudo vim /etc/pam.d/sudo Add this line auth sufficient pam_tid.so to the top of the file, below the comment. It should look something like: # sudo: auth account password session auth sufficient pam_tid....

8 February 2023 · 1 min · Toby Scott
Apache config

Configuring subdomains in XAMPP

My environemnt At the time of writing, I am running XAMPP 8.0.3 on macOS 11.4 1. Enable Virtual Hosts in Apache Go to /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf and uncomment this line: #Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf 2. Configuring a new virtual host Navigate to XAMPP’s htdocs and create a directory named subdomains. Create a directory inside subdomains to be the root directory of the new subdomain. You may call it whatever you like, for this example we will call it mysubdomain....

3 November 2021 · 2 min · Toby Scott