Unable to authenticate

[adnanaq]

Hi I have been trying to authenticate copilot using Permanent sigin-in, but have not been able to. I am able to verify the code that I get from running Copilot auth, but once I complete the auth flow successfully, the message box in nvim doesn't go away and I have to quite nvim. And when I open it again, and run Copilot status, it ask me to run auth command again.

I have tried completing the flow with chrome/firefox installed in wsl, but end up with same result. The auth flow in browser is successful, but the event doesn't trigger the nvim.

I am using Nvim in wsl.

 2025-05-05 10:34:28.191 [1] [DEBUG]: active plugin config:

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2025-05-05 10:34:28.192 [2] [DEBUG]: active LSP config (may change runtime):
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2025-05-05 10:34:28.200 [3] [DEBUG]: not attaching, buffer is not 'buflisted'
2025-05-05 10:34:28.200 [4] [DEBUG]: not attaching to buffer based on force and should_attach criteria
2025-05-05 10:34:34.650 [5] [INFO]: LSP message: [lsp] GitHub Copilot Language Server 1.308.0 initialized
2025-05-05 10:35:02.225 [6] [INFO]: LSP message: [certificates] Removed 1 expired certificates

[adnanaq]

So I am able to solve my issue using curl commands to get the valid copilot token. Ran the following:

1. Run the following curl command in your WSL terminal:

curl -s https://github.com/login/device/code -X POST -d "client_id=Iv1.b507a08c87ecfe98&scope=read:user"

This will return a response similar to:
{ "device_code": "DEVICE_CODE", "user_code": "USER_CODE", "verification_uri": "https://github.com/login/device", "expires_in": 900, "interval": 5 }

2. Open a browser and complete the authentication flow by visiting the provided verification_uri (in this case https://github.com/login/device) and entering the user_code.

3. In the following command, replace YOUR_DEVICE_CODE with the actual device code you received in step 1, and run the following curl command to get the access token:

curl -s https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token -X POST -d "client_id=Iv1.b507a08c87ecfe98&device_code=YOUR_DEVICE_CODE&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code" | grep -o "access_token=[^&]*" | cut -d= -f2

4. Create a hosts.json file in the .config/github-copilot/ directory if it doesn't exist. Add the following content to the file:

{
  "github.com": {
    "user": "USERNAME",
    "oauth_token": "ghu_YOURTOKEN"
  }
}

Replace USERNAME with your git username and YOURTOKEN with the token you got in step 3.

5. Restart Nvim. Run Copilot status. You should be logged in.

[AntoineGS]

Hmm unless this is more widespread the solution might just be the add these steps into the readme under a troubleshooting section.

[azeveco]

Same problem here on WSL.

Sadly the token method isn't permanent, so you have to keep generating.

[AntoineGS]

I can confirm it is broken with WSL.
I went ahead and tried reproducing this and it seems that something broke recently with WSL as I had previously done this (multiple times).
I'll dig around to see if it is a code change or an LSP change that caused this!

[AntoineGS]

The issue seems to be on the LSP-side, as I am having the same problem with copilot.vim.
I will open a ticket on the copilot.vim repo.

[AntoineGS]

Latest version of the LSP fixed it!