GitHub Actions with hub results in Unauthorized (HTTP 401) Bad credentials - authentication

Question

The following exemplary workflow runs without issues:
on: [push]
jobs:
create_release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Create release
run: hub release create -m "$(date)" "v$(date +%s)"
However, some of my CI/CD code needs to run in a container:
on: [push]
jobs:
create_release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container:
image: ubuntu:latest
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
steps:
- name: Install dependencies
run: apt update && apt install -y git hub
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Create release
run: hub release create -m "$(date)" "v$(date +%s)"
Now, hub suddenly doesn't work anymore:
Run hub release create -m "$(date)" "v$(date +%s)"
hub release create -m "$(date)" "v$(date +%s)"
shell: sh -e {0}
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ***
Error creating release: Unauthorized (HTTP 401)
Bad credentials
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Answer 1

The issue was actually with mismatching versions: hub on native ubuntu-latest GitHub Actions was the (as of now) most recent version 2.14.2 while apt install on the ubuntu:latest container installed only version 2.7.0 (from Dec 28, 2018!).
The solution is to install the latest hub binary directly from their GitHub releases page instead of using apt:
on: [push]
jobs:
create_release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container:
image: ubuntu:latest
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
steps:
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
apt update && apt install -y git wget
url="$(wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/github/hub/releases/latest | tr '"' '\n' | grep '.*/download/.*/hub-linux-amd64-.*.tgz')"
wget -qO- "$url" | tar -xzvf- -C /usr/bin --strip-components=2 --wildcards "*/bin/hub"
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Create release
run: hub release create -m "$(date)" "v$(date +%s)"

Answer 2

After adding sudo, it works for me.
- name: Install Deps
run: |
sudo apt-get update 2> /dev/null || true
sudo apt-get install -y git
sudo apt-get install -y wget
url="$(sudo wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/github/hub/releases/latest | tr '"' '\n' | grep '.*/download/.*/hub-linux-amd64-.*.tgz')"
sudo wget -qO- "$url" | sudo tar -xzvf- -C /usr/bin --strip-components=2 --wildcards "*/bin/hub"