Github authentication extension VSCode

Question

I was trying to commit something to github repo using VSCode and I was told that "extension github wants to sign in using github", when I allowed it I was redirected to a page with some link which I could copy in VScode to login.

But when I did so it gives me this error:

Sign in failed: FetchError: request to
https://vscode-auth.github.com/token?code=e23e730e3d1c5dc&state=717aca03-28e1-486f-bbb2-57680a149638
failed, reason: self signed certificate in certificate chain

It has become impossible to work with GitHub due to its security restrictions.

Can someone help?

What version of VSCode, Git and OS are you using? Which extension are you using? — VonC, Dec 30 '21 at 08:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 03 '22 at 05:49

If somehow the certificate from GitHub is not trusted by your Ubuntu OS, you can get it with (as suggested here):

mkdir ~/git-certs

openssl s_client -showcerts github.com:443 2>/dev/null </dev/null | \
sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > ~/git-certs/cert.pem

git config --global http.sslCAInfo "${HOME}/git-certs/cert.pem"

Then relaunch your VSCode and try again.

Github authentication extension VSCode

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