[CAMEL-15865] GitHub API dropped support for username/password credentials

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.7.0
• Component/s: camel-github
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Claus Ibsen
• Reporter: Lukas Lowinger
• Created: 18/Nov/20 14:16
• Updated: 08/Dec/20 07:44
• Resolved: 07/Dec/20 16:10

Description

GitHub component can't use username/password anymore because of https://developer.github.com/changes/2020-02-14-deprecating-password-auth/. 
 
Important note:

All password authentication will return a status code of 401 starting:

November 13, 2020 at 16:00 UTC

Such error is returned when using username/password

org.eclipse.egit.github.core.client.RequestException: Bad credentials. The API can't be accessed using username/password authentication. Please create a personal access token to access this endpoint: http://github.com/settings/tokens (401)