Change docs to reflect support for GitHub 2FA

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Chris Smith 11 years ago
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@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ The following options are supported:
`{"github.com": "oauthtoken"}` as the value of this option will use `oauthtoken`
to access private repositories on github and to circumvent the low IP-based
rate limiting of their API.
[Read more](articles/troubleshooting.md#api-rate-limit-and-two-factor-authentication)
[Read more](articles/troubleshooting.md#api-rate-limit-and-oauth-tokens)
on how to get an oauth token for GitHub.
* **vendor-dir:** Defaults to `vendor`. You can install dependencies into a
different directory if you want to.

@ -105,12 +105,13 @@ Or, you can increase the limit with a command-line argument:
or ```HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor```.
3. Check if it contains any path to non-existent file, if it's the case, just remove them.
## API rate limit and two factor authentication
## API rate limit and oauth tokens
Because of GitHub's rate limits on their API it can happen that Composer prompts
for authentication asking your username and password so it can go ahead with its work.
Unfortunately this will not work if you enabled two factor authentication on
your GitHub account and to solve this issue you need to:
If you would rather than provide your GitHub credentials to Composer you can
manually create a token using the following procedure:
1. [Create](https://github.com/settings/applications) an oauth token on GitHub.
[Read more](https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens) on this.

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