Changes to How Docker Handles Personal Authentication Tokens

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A personal access token (PAT) is a replacement for a password that can have specific scopes for repository access. Docker is improving the visibility of https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ and https://hub.docker.com/ users’ personal access tokens.

To gain authenticated access to Hub from Docker CLI after a successful login from Docker Desktop, an API creates PATs on behalf of a Desktop user.

Within Docker Hub, if you navigate to your profile, select Edit > Security, you can see all of your access tokens, including ones created by Docker Desktop for the CLI on your behalf with Docker Hub (Figure .

Docker Hub, Docker Desktop, and the Docker CLI will continue to behave how users expect.

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