Github requesting my passphrase for every action in CLI

[iteles]

The OS on my Mac updated at some point during the last 2 days to:

And now every time I try to do anything that creates an interaction between remote and Github (clone a rep, push a branch), it asks me for my passphrase:

[iteles]

Tried this and didn't work: https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/

[naazy]

@Conorc1000 and I had the same problem when we had 2 step authentication on 😕 @iteles

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[iteles]

Eek! Will try a couple more things today @naazy and let you know what works 👍
Never had this problem before and have had 2FA for as long as I can remember 😕

[iteles]

I ended up solving this for mac by following this answer on SO:
http://superuser.com/questions/1127067/macos-keeps-asking-my-ssh-passphrase-since-i-updated-to-sierra/1158050#1158050

I created the config file in my root 'Code' directory:

atom ~/.ssh/config