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by duxup 1346 days ago
Even before this announcement I had to set an expiration date on my GitHub tokens….
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Expiration dates are not required on (now called classic) tokens.

https://i.imgur.com/1KQQy4w.png

https://i.imgur.com/MG8slLI.png

The irony is forced expiration will probably hamper adoption of the new tokens. Especially for low risk read-only tokens, I would rather deal with coarse permissions so I don't have to deal with constant alerts to rotate my tokens and having to update my app configs and re-deploy etc. I hope they reconsider this. By all means make me click through a warning or whatever, but at the end of the day I'm an adult, let me make my own decision.

I have some like that too.

It’s just that last time I tried to create some with no exp they wouldn’t let me.