Change docs to reflect support for GitHub 2FA
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`{"github.com": "oauthtoken"}` as the value of this option will use `oauthtoken`
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`{"github.com": "oauthtoken"}` as the value of this option will use `oauthtoken`
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to access private repositories on github and to circumvent the low IP-based
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to access private repositories on github and to circumvent the low IP-based
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rate limiting of their API.
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rate limiting of their API.
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[Read more](articles/troubleshooting.md#api-rate-limit-and-two-factor-authentication)
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[Read more](articles/troubleshooting.md#api-rate-limit-and-oauth-tokens)
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on how to get an oauth token for GitHub.
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on how to get an oauth token for GitHub.
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* **vendor-dir:** Defaults to `vendor`. You can install dependencies into a
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* **vendor-dir:** Defaults to `vendor`. You can install dependencies into a
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different directory if you want to.
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different directory if you want to.
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@ -105,12 +105,13 @@ Or, you can increase the limit with a command-line argument:
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or ```HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor```.
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or ```HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor```.
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3. Check if it contains any path to non-existent file, if it's the case, just remove them.
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3. Check if it contains any path to non-existent file, if it's the case, just remove them.
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## API rate limit and two factor authentication
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## API rate limit and oauth tokens
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Because of GitHub's rate limits on their API it can happen that Composer prompts
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Because of GitHub's rate limits on their API it can happen that Composer prompts
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for authentication asking your username and password so it can go ahead with its work.
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for authentication asking your username and password so it can go ahead with its work.
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Unfortunately this will not work if you enabled two factor authentication on
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your GitHub account and to solve this issue you need to:
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If you would rather than provide your GitHub credentials to Composer you can
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manually create a token using the following procedure:
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1. [Create](https://github.com/settings/applications) an oauth token on GitHub.
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1. [Create](https://github.com/settings/applications) an oauth token on GitHub.
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[Read more](https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens) on this.
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[Read more](https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens) on this.
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