not able to use PAT in Teamcity VCS root for authentication

Created August 18, 2023 17:29

I am trying to enter PAT as authentication in VCS root for Teamcity on premise connecting to azure devops repository and we not able to. If I enter userid/pwd it works fine. I saw a similar post https://teamcity-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360004021559-Can-t-use-personal-access-token-with-TFC-Git-VCS-root and there is no resolution. So I would appreciate any pointers on how/what I should do to get the PAT to work as I will need it to be used in azure devops release pipeline. Thanks for any input!

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Here are a bit detail about the issue:

Type of VCS: git

Authentication method: password/personal access token

username: blank

password/access token: entered pat created from my azure devops account.

click on test connection, it shows

org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException: {url} not authorized

From the thread it seems this is a feature request, is this implemented? the version I am using is:

TeamCity Professional 2022.10.4 (build 117134)

1 comment

Anatoly Cherenkov

Created August 22, 2023 13:17

Hi! I've just tried to create a VCS Root pointing to a Git Azure DevOps repo using PAT authentication in 2022.10.4, and it worked fine for me. I'd recommend ensuring your PAT has sufficient privileges and is not expired.

As a side note, I'd also recommend switching server-side Git operations from JGit to Native Git: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/teamcity/2022.10/git.html#Native+Git+for+VCS-related+operations+on+the+server
The connection should work with both JGit and Native Git, but the latter is usually faster.

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