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# Configure GitHub provider
How to configure the GitHub provider for Snyk IaC drift detection
## Authentication for GitHub provider
To use `iac describe`, set up credentials to make authenticated requests to GitHub. Snyk retrieves configuration information from [environment variables](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/latest/docs#argument-reference).
GitHub tokens can be created from [this GitHub page](https://github.com/settings/tokens/).
```
$ GITHUB_TOKEN=14758f1afd44c09b7992073ccf00b43d \
GITHUB_ORGANIZATION=my-org \
snyk iac describe --to="github+tf"
```
## Least privilege policy​
The following GitHub token scopes are the minimum required for `iac describe` to scan every GitHub-supported resource.
```
# Required to enumerate private repos
repo
# Required to list your organization teams
# and other organization related resources
read:org
```
## **Repository permissions**
To see errors for the repositories listing, you must set the permission `repo` for your token. Without this permission, all private repositories appear as deleted from remote.
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