octogit login <username> <password>

I am updating the site now.

Is it possible to use an oauth-based thing instead? I don't know if github lets you do much with oauth, I'm just a little wary of storing my password in what would presumably be plaintext.

As soon as they implement a CLI based OAuth, I will definitely add it.

I understand your concerns, but if someone has access to your machine your Github password is the least of your worries.

Why would you need that?

You can just request a token[1] using the GitHub API on first load and then use that. I implemented that recently in Pulley[2], which is a GitHub Pull Request Lander.

[1]: http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#create-a-new-authoriza...

[2]: https://github.com/jeresig/pulley

Hmm, GitHub has SSL certificate authentication. Could that be used for login?