Suggest to re-authenticate to fix "SAML enforcement" error

mislav · mislav · commit b0b67014f124 · 2021-08-30T17:18:59.000+02:00
As far as I can put together, this error appears when someone has
authenticated GitHub CLI with a PAT that isn't authorized to access a
certain org. It can also happen if someone has authorized GitHub CLI
using the legacy "GitHub CLI (dev)" OAuth app instead of our production
OAuth app.

Doing `gh auth refresh` will re-authenticate the user using our
production "GitHub CLI" OAuth app which will not have problems accessing
resources in different GitHub organizations.
diff --git a/cmd/gh/main.go b/cmd/gh/main.go
@@ -217,13 +217,15 @@ func mainRun() exitCode {
 
 		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Incorrect function") {
 			fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "You appear to be running in MinTTY without pseudo terminal support.")
-			fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "To learn about workarounds for this error, run: gh help mintty")
+			fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "To learn about workarounds for this error, run:  gh help mintty")
 			return exitError
 		}
 
 		var httpErr api.HTTPError
 		if errors.As(err, &httpErr) && httpErr.StatusCode == 401 {
-			fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "hint: try authenticating with `gh auth login`")
+			fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "Try authenticating with:  gh auth login")
+		} else if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Resource protected by organization SAML enforcement") {
+			fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "Try re-authenticating with:  gh auth refresh")
 		}
 
 		return exitError
