GitHub Actions Permissions

Author: matklad

_posts/2022-10-24-actions-permissions.adoc

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+= GitHub Actions Permissions
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+This short note documents important wrong default in GitHub Actions, which should be corrected for much better contribution experience.
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+Under menu:Settings[Actions > General] there's this setting (default pictured):
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+image::https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1711539/197515707-28b440ae-2053-425c-bf86-8dc3734cf9b4.png[]
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+To save your contributors quite a bit of frustration, you want to flip it to this instead:
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+image::https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1711539/197516133-6f31195a-8487-45e3-b6c6-973f9ef66868.png[]
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+Obviously, the first best solution here is for GitHub itself to change the default.