Installing yii2 via composer and it keeps prompting for a password

Question

I am just following instructions from the yii website and don't really understand composer. I followed the instructions from here http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-start-installation.html

The authentication seems to be working but then it prompts me for the username/password again and again.

Anyone got some things I can check to see why it keeps prompting?

[root@dndbox html]# composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Installing yiisoft/yii2-app-basic (dev-master b528289495bf9721d2b8c628d69caad42e45b0ce)
  - Installing yiisoft/yii2-app-basic (dev-master master)
    Downloading: connection...
Could not fetch https://api.github.com/repos/yiisoft/yii2-app-basic/zipball/b528289495bf9721d2b8c628d69caad42e45b0ce, enter your GitHub credentials to go over the API rate limit
The credentials will be swapped for an OAuth token stored in /root/auth.json, your password will not be stored
To revoke access to this token you can visit https://github.com/settings/applications
Username: *.com
Password: 
An existing OAuth token for Composer is present and will be reused

Could not fetch https://api.github.com/authorizations, enter your GitHub credentials to go over the API rate limit
The credentials will be swapped for an OAuth token stored in /root/auth.json, your password will not be stored
To revoke access to this token you can visit https://github.com/settings/applications
Username: *.com
Password: 
An existing OAuth token for Composer is present and will be reused

Could not fetch https://api.github.com/authorizations, enter your GitHub credentials to go over the API rate limit
The credentials will be swapped for an OAuth token stored in /root/auth.json, your password will not be stored
To revoke access to this token you can visit https://github.com/settings/applications
Username: 

==================================== EDIT 1 =====================================

If I visit the URL provided I get a error message in the json, https://api.github.com/authorizations

{
  "message": "API rate limit exceeded for xxx.xxx.xxx.26. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
}

Solution 1

It may helps you more. Follow the steps:

1. Create/Sign in into github account.
2. Go to Profile>>Settings>>Personal access tokens (OR) click on this https://github.com/settings/tokens.
3. Click on Generate new token
4. Select the appropriate scopes and click Generate token.
5. Copy the the token Key and past it in composer when the composer want you the Token(like: Token (Hidden):)

Now it will enter into the installation process.

Good Luck...

Solution 2

see this answer on the forum

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/60340-issue-while-installing-yii-2/page__view__findpost__p__269389

it helped me