GitHub authentication failing over https returning wrong email address

Question

Initiating a push or any other action with GitHub from the command line  over https  not ssh  that calls for the username and password not only fails but  when it does  it returns   Username for  https   github com   username Password for  https   username github com    remote  Invalid username or password  fatal  Authentication failed for  https   github com username repository git     I do not have an  github com address  The password and username are correct   I know I could switch to SSH and use keys but that doesn t answer why the authentication is failing over https

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I do not have an  github com address   You don t have to  the   is the separator between the username password and the domain  It is not an email address   A full GitHub https url would be   https   username password github com username reponame git   Without the password  which would then be asked on the command line   that would gave   https   username github com username reponame git   But again  username github com isn t an email address  just the first part of the credentials   Make sure the case of your username and reponame is correct  it is case sensitive   Note that you can store and encrypt your credentials in a  netrc gpg  or  netrc gpg on Windows  if you don t want to put said credentials in clear in the url  See  Is there a way to skip password typing when using https   github

User · Answer

It may happen in Windows if you stored a different credentials before  Go to Credential Manager and delete stored github credentials

User · Answer

On Windows  you may be silently blocked by your Antivirus or Windows firewall  Temporarily turn off those services and push pull from remote origin

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Same thing happened with me  when i have enabled 2-way authentication for github  Things i did to resolve    Get you personal access token  This you have to check and generate if not available already  Link for this  https   github com settings tokens  Go to your local and delete folder and re-clone branch from github  Now try the command you were trying earlier i e  git pull origin master Enter username and In password paste the token generated and also don t forget to save that token somewhere  so you can re-use if required    Doing this will solve your issue

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Go to Credential Manager    Windows Manager Delete everything related to tfs Now click on Add a generic credential and provide the following values   1  Internet or network adress  git https   tfs donamain name  2  username  your username  3  password  your password  this should fix it

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Just incase this helps anyone else also  I was signed into the mac app  command line working fine  but because I then turned on 2FA  my commands were returning the error  I had to sign out of the app  then I could use my Personal access token  in my commands as per ele s answer here   Hopefully that helps someone

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GitHub s support determined the root of the issue right away  Two-factor authorization   To use GitHub over the shell with https  create an OAuth token  As the page notes  I did have to remove my username and password credentials from Keychain but with osx-keychain in place  the token is stored as the password and things work exactly as they would over https without two-factor authorization in place

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Mac only   If you need to delete your authentication  use  git credential-osxkeychain erase host github com protocol https   on Mac   See https   help github com articles updating-credentials-from-the-osx-keychain

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