Do I have to use a browser to authenticate?

[madorian]

I access an Emacs instance over ssh. Can I somehow get a token that I can transfer to this instance or more?

[chep]

I force-pushed a workaround :

• update copilot-chat
• use curl backend
• try to chat
• the url and the code will now be written in the messages buffer.
• switch to the messages buffer without stopping the minibuffer read (for me I have to use list-buffers)
• open the url in your local browser
• authenticate
• enter the code manually
• press enter in your remote emacs

[chep]

I never tried to copy tokens but it may work.
The token is in ~/.config/copilot-chat/github-token.