Where to store the personal access token from GitHub?

Question

Is it necessary to store the personal access token somewhere locally on the machine after generating it in GitHub?

If yes, is there any preferred way where it could be

Answer 1

In my case, in Ubuntu, the accepted solution didn't work with a message like

git: 'credential-manager' is not a git command

but store instead of manager worked well:

git config --global credential.helper store