How to setup GitHub Organization settings to allow classic access tokens
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    How to setup GitHub Organization settings to allow classic access tokens

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    Article Summary

    If you are migrating or mirroring a repo from your personal github account, you can generate an access token and skip this tutorial.

    If you need to migrate a github repo owned by an organization, you must first set the organization settings before you use your classic personal access token.

    Visit your organization page. For example, ours is
    https://github.com/Moreganization/

    Click on settings.
    This is our organization settings link: https://github.com/organizations/Moreganization/settings/profile
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    Scroll down and click on the menu Personal access tokens
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    AllSpice does not use fine-grained personal access tokens. Set this to whatever makes sense for your organization.
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    AllSpice does not use fine grained personal access tokens. Set this to whatever makes sense for your organization.
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    Set Personal access token (classic) to "Allow access via personal access tokens (classic). This will allow you to migrate/mirror your organization projects to AllSpice using your personal access token.
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    Here is a short video showing organization token setup

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