Remove process of auth

src/api-client.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export const getApiClient = function(githubAuth: string, githubUrl: string, allo
   }
   return new github.GitHub(
     {
-      auth: parseAuth(githubAuth),
+      auth: githubAuth,
       baseUrl: getApiUrl(githubUrl),
       userAgent: "CodeQL Action",
       log: consoleLogLevel({ level: "debug" })
@@ -32,19 +32,6 @@ function getApiUrl(githubUrl: string): string {
   return url.toString();
 }
 
-// Parses the user input as either a single token,
-// or a username and password / PAT.
-function parseAuth(auth: string): string {
-  // Check if it's a username:password pair
-  const c = auth.indexOf(':');
-  if (c !== -1) {
-    return 'basic ' + Buffer.from(auth).toString('base64');
-  }
-
-  // Otherwise use the token as it is
-  return auth;
-}
-
 // Temporary function to aid in the transition to running on and off of github actions.
 // Once all code has been coverted this function should be removed or made canonical
 // and called only from the action entrypoints.

src/runner.ts

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ program
   .description('Initializes CodeQL')
   .requiredOption('--repository <repository>', 'Repository name')
   .requiredOption('--github-url <url>', 'URL of GitHub instance')
-  .requiredOption('--github-auth <auth>', 'GitHub Apps token, or of the form "username:token" if using a personal access token')
+  .requiredOption('--github-auth <auth>', 'GitHub Apps token or personal access token')
   .option('--languages <languages>', 'Comma-separated list of languages to analyze. Defaults to trying to detect languages from the repo.')
   .option('--queries <queries>', 'Comma-separated list of additional queries to run. By default, this overrides the same setting in a configuration file.')
   .option('--config-file <file>', 'Path to config file')