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GitHub teams lack scriptable control over credential access

Organization administrators want to revoke access without depending on each user to act in a browser, while developers want to review connected apps and avoid long-lived credentials. The signals point to a gap in programmatic credential management and access review, especially in CLI and scripted workflows. An independent product could improve some workflows, but actions such as revoking every user-owned token or changing GitHub’s OAuth token lifetime may require platform support.

For gitHub organization administrators and security-conscious developers. Mentioned from Dec 2020 to Jan 2025 on GitHub and Stack Exchange.

4 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.

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Indie fit
5.0/10
Pain
5.5/10
Frequency
5.8/10
Willingness to pay
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Momentum
5.0/10
Who pays
Businesses
Competition
Medium
Build difficulty
High

What people said

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  1. This is really frustrating for any organization, we obviously can't rely on users to open up their browsers and check which tokens to revoke, we need to build this into scripts
    insanitybit on GitHub (cli/cli)Apr 2022Asked for a toolHas a workaround
  2. I would like to be able to create and revoke personal access tokens from the CLI
    CalvinRodo on GitHub (cli/cli)Dec 2020+68 upvotesAsked for a tool
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