I want to set up a Git_CI_USER. I get the message “Unable to create masked variable because: The value must have 8 characters.” My GIT_CI_USER only has 7 characters.
How can I solve this problem? Perhaps the problem can be solved with the help of a job ID or SSL?
Here are a few lines from my .gitlab-ci.yaml file
before_script:
- git remote set-url origin ``https://$GIT_CI_USER:$GIT_CI_PASS@gitlab.com/$CI_PROJECT_PATH.git
The password, not the user, is the secret part.
Most GitLab APIs treat the username as a documentation field and only use the token to authenticate and authorize the access.
Deploy Tokens have a specific user account but other group/personal/project access tokens do not even have a paired username.
If you use a project access token for git authentication, then you don’t need a predefined username - you can write any string in there and just pass the project access token for authentication.
e.g. https://ci-bot:$GIT_CI_PASS@gitlab.com/$CI_PROJECT_PATH.git
For this, first create a project access token and then save it as a CI/CD variable, in this case called GIT_CI_PASS.