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The credential manager you will use on GNU/Linux to the personal access token depends on your desktop environment. If you are using a desktop environment with support for GNOME Keyring, then follow the instructions in the GNOME Keyring section. If you are using a GNU/Linux installation without a desktop environment (e.g. when using SSH to connect to a server) or a desktop environment that does not support the GNOME Keyring (e.g. XFCE, KDE, i3), then you need to pick a credential manager that suits your security and usability needs. The following sections will present four common choices for storing personal access tokens when you are unable to use GNOME Keyring:

• GPGGnuPG
• age
• pass
• plain text files

GNOME Keyring

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For the PAT itself, all Skara tools interacting with an external Git source code hosting provider's API supports the GIT_TOKEN environment variable. This means that instead of storing your PAT in a secure way in a Git credential manager you will have to secure the PAT yourself according to your security requirements. To generate a a Personal Access Token on GitHub go to https://github.com/settings/tokens and and click on "Generate new token". You only need to select the "repo" scope (permission). The following sections then give a few examples on how to securely store the PAT you just generated depending your security needs.

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GnuPG

You can use GnuPG (GPG) to store the personal access token in an encrypted file. You will first have to store your GitHub username in the Git configuration file by running the following command (replace <USERNAME> with your GitHub username):

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