# Hugging Face — Deprecation of Git Authentication using password

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-08-25
- Category: deprecation
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/password-git-deprecation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2006-deprecation-of-git-authentication-using-password
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face Hub will deprecate password-based Git authentication starting October 1, 2023, requiring users to switch to personal access tokens or SSH keys.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/password-git-deprecation:

> Starting from October 1st, 2023, we will no longer accept passwords as a way to authenticate your command-line Git operations.

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