GitLab - Git Clone with MFA Enabled

Instructions to login into GitLab when 2FA is enabled

A. Create an Access Token:

1. Log in into the GitLab account;
2. Go to the Preferences section (hover the profile image and wait for the menu).
3. Go to Access Tokens
4. Now here you can create a temporary token; if you need to pull/push you must enable read_repository and write_repository flags.
5. A token is shown in the page. Don’t close or refresh the page, or you won’t be able to retrieve the same token again!!!

B. Clone the Repository

1. Open a terminal and run the git clone command with https:

   git clone https://<gitlab-server-name>/<gitlab-repository>.git
   

2. Once you press enter, you will be prompted for password
3. Paste the Personal Access Token (PAT) that you created above and the repo should be cloned.

OR

1. Clone the repository using git clone https://oauth2:@gitlab.com//.git