fatal could not read Username for https github com No such file or directory

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I have the following problem when I try to pull code using git Bash on Windows  fatal  could not read Username for  https   github com   No such file or directory  I already tried to implement the accepted solution provided here   Error when push commits with Github  fatal  could not read Username     but the problem persists  After adding removing origin I still get the same error

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This is an issue with your stored credentials in the system credential cache  You probably have the config variable  credential helper  set to either wincred or winstore and it is failing to clear it  If you start the Control Panel and launch the Credential Manager applet then look for items in the generic credentials section labelled  git https   github com   If you delete these  then the will be recreated next time but the credential helper utility will ask you for your new credentials

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For me nothing worked from suggested above  I use git pull from jenkins shell script and apparently it takes wrong user name  I spent ages before I found a way to fix it without switching to SSH    In your the user s folder create  gitconfig file  if you don t have it already  and put your credentials in following format  https   user pass example com  more info  After your  gitconfig file link to those credentials  in my case it was     credential    helper   store --file  Users admin  git-credentials  Now git will always use those credentials no matter what  I hope it will help someone  like it helped me

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I found my answer here   edit    gitconfig and add the following    url  git github com     insteadOf   https   github com    Although it solves a different problem  the error code is the same

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This error can also happen when trying to clone an invalid HTTP URL   For example  this is the error I got when trying to clone a GitHub URL that was a few characters off     git clone -v http   github com username repo-name git Cloning into  repo-name     Username for  https   github com    Password for  https   github com    remote  Repository not found  fatal  Authentication failed for  https   github com username repo-name git     It actually happened inside Emacs  though  so the error in Emacs looked like this   fatal  could not read Username for    https   github com     No such device or address   So instead of a helpful error saying that there was no such repo at that URL  it gave me that  sending me on a wild goose chase until I finally realized that the URL was incorrect   This is with git version 2 7 4   I m posting this here because it happened to me a month ago and again just now  sending me on the same wild goose chase again

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Try using a normal Windows shell such as CMD

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For those getting this error in a Jenkins pipeline  it can be fixed by using an SSH Agent plugin  Then wrap your git commands in something like this   sshagent   my-ssh-key          git remote set-url origin git github com username reponame git     sh  git push origin branch name

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Short Answer   git init git add README md git commit -m  first commit    git remote add origin https   github com  USER NAME   REPOSITORY NAME  git git push --set-upstream origin master   Ignore first three lines if it s not a new repository   Longer description   Just had the same problem  as non of the above answers helped me  I have decided to post this solution that worked for me   Few Notes    The SSH key was generated SSH key was added to github  still had this error  I ve made a new repository on GitHub for this project and followed the steps described   As the command line tool I used GitShell  for Windows  I use Terminal app on Mac   GitShell is official GitHub tool  can be downloaded from https   windows github com   Hope this helps to anyone who has the same problem

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Note that if you are getting this error instead  fatal  could not read Username for  https   github com   No error  Then you need to update your Git to version 2 16 or later

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Follow the steps to setup SSH keys here  https   help github com articles generating-ssh-keys  OR  git remote add origin https    username   password  github com  username  project git

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What worked for me is to change the access of the Git repository from private to public

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I fixed this by installing a newer version of Git   The version I installed is 2 10 2 from https   git-scm com   See the last post here  https   www bountysource com issues 31602800-git-fails-to-authenticate-access-to-private-repository-over-https  With newer Git Bash  the credential manager window pops up and you can enter your username and password  and it works

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Double check the repository URL  Github will prompt you to login if the repo doesn t exist  I m guessing this is probably to check if it s a private repo you have access to  Possibly to make it harder to enumerate private repos  But this is all conjecture   shrug

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Earlier when I wasn t granted permission to access the repo  I had also added the SSH pubkey to gitlab  At the point I could access the repo and run go mod vendor  the same problem as your happens   maybe because of cache   go mod vendor  go  errors parsing go mod   Users macos Documents sample go mod 22  git ls-remote -q https   git aaa team core some repo git in  Users macos go pkg mod cache vcs a94d20a18fd56245f5d0f9f1601688930cad7046e55dd453b82e959b12d78369  exit status 128      fatal  could not read Username for  https   git aaa team   terminal prompts disabled   After a while trying  I decide to remove the SSH key and terminal prompts filling in username and password  Everything is fine then

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Replace your remote url like this   git remote set-url origin https    lt username gt  github com  lt username gt   lt repo gt  git

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I faced the exact same problem  This problem occurred when I cloned using HTTPS URL and then tried to push the changes using Git Bash on Windows using   git clone https   github com  username   repo  git   However  when I used SSH URL to clone  this problem didn t occur   git clone git github com  username   repo  git

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trying the CreativeMagic solution  the credential problem is confirmed   prompt   Username for  https   github com   So  I changed my origin url with  git remote set-url --add origin http   github com user repo   and  git push --set-upstream origin master

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If you want to continue use https instead ssh  and avoid type into your username and password for security reason   You can also try Github OAuth token  then you can do git config remote origin url  https    token  github com  username   project  git  or git remote add origin  https    token  github com  username   project  git   This works for me

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TL DR  check if you can read write to  dev tty  If no and you have used su to open the shell  check if you have used it correctly   I was facing the same problem but on Linux and I have found the issue  I don t have my credentials stored so I always input them on prompt   Username for  https   github com   foo Password for  https   foo github com      The way how git handles http s  connections is using  usr lib git-core git-remote-https you can see strace here   stat   usr lib git-core git-remote-https    st mode S IFREG 0755  st size 1366784          0 pipe  9  10                               0 rt sigprocmask SIG SETMASK    RTMIN RT 1       8    0 clone child stack NULL  flags CLONE CHILD CLEARTID CLONE CHILD SETTID SIGCHLD  child tidptr 0x7f65398bb350    18177 rt sigprocmask SIG SETMASK      NULL  8    0 close 10                                  0 read 9      8                             0 close 9                                   0 close 5                                   0 close 8                                   0 dup 7                                     5 fcntl 5  F GETFL                          0  flags O RDONLY  write 6   capabilities n   13             13 fstat 5   st mode S IFIFO 0600  st size 0          0 read 5   fetch noption npush ncheck-connecti      4096    38 write 6   option progress true n   21     21 read 5   ok n   4096                      3 write 6   option verbosity 1 n   19       19 read 5   ok n   4096                      3 stat   git packed-refs    st mode S IFREG 0664  st size 675          0 lstat   git objects 10 52401742a2e9a3e8bf068b115c3818180bf19e    st mode S IFREG 0444  st size 179          0 lstat   git objects 4e 35fa16cf8f2676600f56e9ba78cf730adc706e    st mode S IFREG 0444  st size 178          0 dup 7                                     8 fcntl 8  F GETFL                          0  flags O RDONLY  close 8                                   0 write 6   list for-push n   14            14 read 5  fatal  could not read Username for  https   github com   No such device or address     4096                          0 --- SIGCHLD  si signo SIGCHLD  si code CLD EXITED  si pid 18177  si uid 1000  si status 128  si utime 6  si stime 2  --- exit group 128                                  exited with 128       So I tried to call it directly   echo  list for-push    strace  usr lib git-core git-remote-https my   and the result   poll   fd 3  events POLLIN POLLPRI POLLRDNORM POLLRDBAND    1  0    1    fd 3  revents POLLIN POLLRDNORM    recvfrom 3    27 3 3 1 32   5  0  NULL  NULL    5 recvfrom 3    307 4Q 21 306 334 244o 237- 230 255 336 25 215D 257 227 274 r 330 314U 5 17 217T 274 262M 223      282  0  NULL  NULL    282 openat AT FDCWD    dev tty   O RDONLY     -1 ENXIO  No such device or address  openat AT FDCWD    usr share locale locale alias   O RDONLY O CLOEXEC    4 fstat 4   st mode S IFREG 0644  st size 2995          0 read 4     Locale name alias data base  n       4096    2995 read 4      4096                          0 close 4                                   0 openat AT FDCWD    usr share locale en US LC MESSAGES libc mo   O RDONLY    -1 ENOENT  No such file or directory  openat AT FDCWD    usr share locale en LC MESSAGES libc mo   O RDONLY    -1 ENOENT  No such file or directory  openat AT FDCWD    usr share locale-langpack en US LC MESSAGES libc mo   O RDONLY    -1 ENOENT  No such file or directory  openat AT FDCWD    usr share locale-langpack en LC MESSAGES libc mo   O RDONLY    -1 ENOENT  No such file or directory  write 2   fatal  could not read Username f      83fatal  could not read Username for  https   github com   No such device or address     83 exit group 128                                  exited with 128       And here it came to me   openat AT FDCWD    dev tty   O RDONLY     -1 ENXIO  No such device or address      write 2   fatal  could not read Username f      83fatal  could not read Username for  https   github com   No such device or address     83   git-remote-https tries to read credentials via  dev tty so I tested if it works     echo ahoj  gt   dev tty bash   dev tty  No such device or address   But in another terminal     echo ahoj  gt   dev tty ahoj   I knew I switched to this user using su so I exited the shell to see how and found out I used command su danman - so I tested it again      su danman - bash  cannot set terminal process group  -1   Inappropriate ioctl for device bash  no job control in this shell  root  echo ahoj  gt   dev tty bash   dev tty  No such device or address   I probably ignored the message and continued working but this was the reason  When I switched using the correct su - danman everything worked fine      su - danman danman speedy    echo ahoj  gt   dev tty ahoj   After this  git started working correctly

[git] fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such file or directory

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