How to get more authenticated to github-cli?

Question

I am authenticated to github cli via token

gh auth status -h lalala.com
#=>
lalala.com
  ✓ Logged in to lalala.com as lolofon (~/.config/gh/hosts.yml)
  ✓ Git operations for lalala.com configured to use https protocol.

but, immediately executed afterwards:

gh pr list --repo lala/portal
#=>
HTTP 401: This endpoint requires you to be authenticated. (https://api.github.com/graphql)

What I am doing wrong? Thanks!

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '20 at 12:39

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Apparently its a bug :-(
You can workaround it very easily by setting an env var like this:

set GH_HOST=lalala.com

See this GitHub issue for details

answered Sep 22 '20 at 12:39

ShaulF

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '23 at 16:36

See also PR 7449 which is now (May 2023) part of gh v2.30.0:

As an avid github.com Actions users, I spent several hours debugging 401 authentication failures that targeted a Github Enterprise Server (GHES) appliance.

I 100% saw the note that "if I was setting GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN then I should set GH_HOST". When I saw the auth failure for api.github.com I immediately knew I needed to set GH_HOST.

I had no idea that GH_TOKEN and GITHUB_TOKEN are disregarded if GH_HOST is not equal to either github or localhost.

How to get more authenticated to github-cli?

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