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[Securing your account with two-factor authentication (2FA)](https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/securing-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication-2fa)
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If you don't already use a password manager such as 1Password, this is a great time to start!
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If you don't already use a password manager such as 1Password or Bitwarden, this is a great time to start!
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Among other benefits, these apps can serve as an authenticator for 2FA.
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Turning on 2FA is recommended, but optional.
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You won't be able to see this token again, so don't close or navigate away from this browser window until you store the PAT locally.
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Copy the PAT to the clipboard, anticipating what we'll do next: trigger a prompt that lets us store the PAT in the Git credential store.
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Sidebar about storing your PAT: If you use a password management app, such as 1Password or LastPass (highly recommended!), you might want to add this PAT (and its *Note*) to the entry for GitHub.
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Sidebar about storing your PAT: If you use a password management app, such as 1Password or Bitwarden (highly recommended!), you might want to add this PAT (and its *Note*) to the entry for GitHub.
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Storing your PAT in the Git credential store is a semi-persistent convenience, sort of like a browser cache or "remember me" on a website, but it's quite possible you will need to re-enter your PAT in the future.
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You could decide to embrace the impermanence of your PAT and, if it is somehow removed from the store, you'll just re-generate a new PAT and re-enter it.
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If you accept the default 30-day expiration period, this is a workflow you'll be using often anyway.
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But if you create long-lasting tokens or want to play around with the functions for setting or clearing your Git credentials, it can be handy to have your own record of your PAT in a secure place, like 1Password or LastPass.
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But if you create long-lasting tokens or want to play around with the functions for setting or clearing your Git credentials, it can be handy to have your own record of your PAT in a secure place, like 1Password or Bitwarden.
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### Put your PAT into the local Git credential store
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