How do I remove the autofilled username when using flit publish?

[schuelermine]

I’ve published my first package using Flit. When I did that, I got a message from PyPI informing me that non-API-token-based uploads will, in the future, no longer be supported for 2FA-enabled accounts. I would therefore like to upload my project using the __token__ username instead, but ever since I entered my username the first time, flit autofills it, and I can’t see how to get rid of that.

[takluyver]

Flit is missing a bit of UI to manage credentials at the moment - see also #113. The username should be written into a file ~/.pypirc - you can edit it out of that, or just delete the whole file if there's nothing else of interest there.

I also want to have a better workflow for automatically creating and storing specific tokens rather than storing your password, but this needs some changes in Warehouse (PyPI server code) - pypi/warehouse#6396 and pypi/warehouse#6378 .

[schuelermine]

Thanks, I found the file! I’d previously tried searching my ~ for anything named “flit” but had no luck