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    ### Generate a GitHub Personal Access Token for Private Composer Packages

    If you're trying to load a private repository with Composer/Laravel, we'll need to generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (similar to OAuth token) to access the repository during a `composer install` without entering credentials.

    > If you have used other Github packages from `{my-org}` before, you may be able to skip this step.
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    If you're trying to load a private repository with Composer/Laravel, we'll need to generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (similar to OAuth token) to access the repository during a `composer install` without entering credentials.

    > If you have used other packages from `riverbedlab` before, you may be able to skip this step.
    > If you have used other Github packages from `{my-org}` before, you may be able to skip this step.
    1. Visit [https://github.com/settings/tokens](https://github.com/settings/tokens).

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    If you're trying to load a private repository with Composer/Laravel, we'll need to generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (similar to OAuth token) to access the repository during a `composer install` without entering credentials.

    > If you have used other packages from `riverbedlab` before, you may be able to skip this step.
    1. Visit [https://github.com/settings/tokens](https://github.com/settings/tokens).

    2. Click **Generate new token**.

    Token Description: (your computer name)
    Scopes:
    [X] repo
    [X] repo:status
    [X] repo_deployment
    [X] public_repo
    [X] repo:invite

    3. Click **Generate token**.

    4. Copy the generated string to a safe place, such as a password safe.

    5. Open Terminal and add the github token. Note: The file may be empty.

    # nano ~/.composer/auth.json

    {
    "github-oauth": {
    "github.com": "abc123def456ghi7890jkl987mno654pqr321stu"
    }
    }

    6. Test if the authentication is working by doing a clone.

    cd ~/Sites/
    git clone https://github.com/my-org/my-private-repo
    (You should not be prompted for credentials)