PATs can be simply used as passwords, with some fixed username (in GitHub, the username is usually your username, in other services it's sometimes a fixed name)

JitteryCoyote63 do you mean a personal access token (PAT)?

Yes! not a strong use case though, rather I wanted to ask if it was supported somehow

Hi JitteryCoyote63

I would like to switch to using a single auth token.

What is the rationale behind to that ?

Yes, I switched to that, thanks!

See here: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token#using-a-token-on-the-command-line

I can live with the current setup for now