I’ve just made myself a private registry for my work packages, following the nice instructions here . My organisation uses private github for most of our code, so I’ve put it there. When I try to do a package update, Pkg tells me it “failed to fetch from repo”. But I can successfully fetch if I navig…

[image] Andrew_Gibb: Is Pkg not using my ssh credentials? Should I expect this to work? AFAIK Pkg uses HTTPS access, and for Github/ssh you want the git@... protocol. Just change the remote for origin. [image] Managing remote repositories - GitHub Docs Learn to work with your loc…

I see. That’s going to a problem, as our security set up doesn’t allow for anonymous access to our private repos. I guess I should raise an issue against Pkg.

I don’t see what “anonymous” means in this context. How do you usually authenticate to Github for your own repos (regardless of Julia)?

We authenticate git commands using ssh keys only. This appears to be what happens when you insist on 2fa for all accounts in your organisation. https always fails, even if you enter username and password correctly. And Pkg never prompts for username and password.

If you use ssh keys, why should it need a password? In any case, I have private repos on Github working fine with Pkg, but perhaps organizational setups are different. My ~/.gitconfig has [github] user = my_github_username [credential] helper = store

[image] Tamas_Papp: Pkg uses HTTPS access I had read this to mean “Pkg always uses HTTPS access”, implying that ssh wasn’t possible. That’s why I was expecting Pkg to prompt for a username/password. Your suggestion to use helper = store works for when I’m off-network, but not when I’m on-net…

I am an not an expert on Pkg internals, but first I would make sure everything works as it should just using the git command line.

OK, thanks Tamas. Seems like git is working just fine. Hopefully someone who knows more about Pkg and Registries will have a look!

Whats the remote origin url of the registry? Is it https or git@? Have you tried Pkg.setprotocol!("ssh")?

[image] fredrikekre: Whats the remote origin url of the registry? Is it https or git@ ? Have you tried Pkg.setprotocol!("ssh") ? The remote origin, using git remote -v is git@. However, in Pkg.Registry.status() it’s https. Pkg.setprotocol! doesn’t seem to make a difference to the result of P…

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Is this earlier discussion helpful? How to specify the SSH key for Pkg to use

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