Stuck at Two-Step Authentication

[haider-kazal]

After updating the extension to the latest, it gets stuck after I give the token. Tried in 4 pcs, happens in all of them.

[shana]

There's nothing in the latest release that would affect the login, so not sure what's going on here. If it's still happening, you can try uninstalling the extension and installing earlier releases from the releases page at https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/releases, to see if you can find one that works (and where it broke)

[haider-kazal]

Ok... Thanks, I'll roll back to previous version then.

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:40:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: [VisualStudio] Stuck at Two-Step Authentication (#176)

There's nothing in the latest release that would affect the login, so not sure what's going on here. If it's still happening, you can try uninstalling the extension and installing earlier releases from the releases page at https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/releases, to see if you can find one that works (and where it broke)

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[anthonychu]

This happened to me on 2 separate VS2015 installs as well. As we can see in the screenshot above, the login is actually completed (GitHub repos are showing in Team Explorer). But the modal stays open with the "Verify" spinner going forever. Closing the modal manually by clicking the X seems to work fine.

[haacked]

I think I know what this bug is. It's tricky. I can look into it later.

[haider-kazal]

Thanks everyone... And another thing, I get logged out each time I close Visual Studio after these bug occured... Please look onto tha too... Thanks

[timsneath]

Getting the same issue here with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, although as @anthonychu says, you can close the dialog box and everything still seems to work.

[WillBuik]

Running into this as well on VS 2015 Update 1. Manually closing the dialog worked around the issue for me.

[jakenuts]

I found a solution from several articles on the subject, though this one had the right combination (for me). In short, you generate a Personal Access Token in GitHub and when the authentication window appears enter your GitHub username and the token as your password. I haven't seen the dialog since.

[shana]

Thanks for the reports everyone. We're working on this, it feels like the dialog just isn't closing properly even though it completes the authentication successfully (but not every time, so it's annoying to debug).

@jakenuts The authentication dialog already handles 2FA, so using personal tokens is not the solution to this particular issue.

[shana]

Hey everyone!

#202 is the reason why some of you keep getting logged out. I'll get a new release out asap to fix that as well as the login dialog not going away, will let you know when it's out.