"Cannot run interactive auth in CI" when creating branch

Hi everyone. I've been lately experiencing some strange behavior with my Github Actions CI/CD pipelines while creating a branch with neondatabase/create-branch-action@v4 Everything is working fine for normal PRs, but when dependabot creates a PR, the pipeline stage fails with this output:

ERROR: Cannot run interactive auth in CI
ERROR: branch creation failed
ERROR: Cannot run interactive auth in CI

ERROR: Cannot run interactive auth in CI
ERROR: branch creation failed
ERROR: Cannot run interactive auth in CI

What's going on here and how can I fix this? Thanks in advance!

3 Replies

correct-apricot•2y ago

My guess is that this is a permission issue. Check GitHub Workflow permissions under the repository settings. The idea is that if someone (or a bot) opens a PR against your repository, they can't just run jobs that access secrets.

correct-apricot•2y ago

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/automating-dependabot-with-github-actions#accessing-secrets

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