Permission denied error on Github Push

Question

Recently  I m added as a member contributor for Github project  I have cloned that project on local machine   I have made some changes and committed locally and now trying to Push changes to original repo but when I try to Push I get some permission error   C  Users MM Documents GitHub software-licensing-php  master  gt  git push origin master remote  Permission to EasySoftwareLicensing software-licensing-php git denied to  irfandayan  fatal  unable to access  https   github com EasySoftwareLicensing software-licen sing-php git    The requested URL returned error  403 C  Users MM Documents GitHub software-licensing-php  master  gt  git statu s   On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 2 commits       use  git push  to publish your local commits    nothing to commit  working directory clean   Am I lacking some permission for pushing changes so I could ask the original author of project

User · Answer

In could able to resolve this issue with giving username and password in below url.

Please replace username and password with your Github credentials:

git remote set-url origin https://<username>:<password>@github.com/<username>/FirstRepository.git

User · Answer

I had this problem too but managed to solve it  the error is that ur computer has saved a git username and password so if you shift to another account the error 403 will appear  Below is the solution For Windows you can find the keys here  control panel  gt  user accounts  gt  credential manager  gt  Windows credentials  gt  Generic credentials Next remove the Github keys

User · Answer

I used to have the same error when i change my user email by  git config --global user email and found my solution here  Go to  Control Panel -  User Accounts -  Manage your credentials -  Windows Credentials  Under Generic Credentials there are some credentials related to Github  Click on them and click  Remove    and when you try to push something  you need to login again  hope this will be helpful for you

User · Answer

For some reason my push and pull origin was changed to HTTPS-url in stead of SSH-url  probably a copy-paste error on my end   but trying to push would give me the following error after trying to login   Username for  https   github com   xxx Password for  https   xxx github com    remote  Invalid username or password    Updating the remote origin with the SSH url  solved the problem   git remote set-url origin git github com  lt username gt   lt repo gt  git   Hope this helps

User · Answer

Based on the information that the original poster has provided so far  it might be the case that the project owners of EasySoftwareLicensing software-licensing-php will only accept pull requests from forks  so you may need to fork the main repo and push to your fork  then make pull requests from it to the main repo   See the following GitHub help articles for instructions    Fork a Repo  Collaborating

User · Answer

Another way to get this error  is if you have duplicate or conflicting    ssh   entries  First check what is on your ssh key-chain with     ssh-add -l 2048 SHA256  lt hash1 gt  email2 gmail com  RSA  2048 SHA256  lt hash2 gt  email1 gmail com  RSA  2048 SHA256  lt hash3 gt  email1 gmail com  RSA    As you can see there are two emails which are the same  and easy for you to get confused  Then check your config file     cat    ssh config    GitHub  email1 gmail com Host github ex  HostName github com  PreferredAuthentications publickey  IdentityFile    ssh github ex    GitHub  email2 gmail com Host github  HostName github com  PreferredAuthentications publickey  IdentityFile    ssh github    Bitbucket  email1 gmail com Host bitbucket  HostName bitbucket org  PreferredAuthentications publickey  IdentityFile    ssh bitbuc   Here you see that you have two different email accounts to github but same HostName  Someone is bound to get confused  including your git    To resolve  manually remove  after copying  the  default  files   cd    ssh rm id rsa rm id rsa pub   Now copy back the one you want to use  for example Host github    cp -a github id rsa cp -a github pub id rsa pub   Then try again   For some reason  removing keys with ssh-add -d id rsa didn t work as expected  as it seem that key-chain is cached

User · Answer

See the github help on cloning URL  With HTTPS  if you are not authorized to push  you would basically have a read-only access  So yes  you need to ask the author to give you permission   If the author doesn t give you permission  you can always fork  clone  his repository and work on your own  Once you made a nice and tested feature  you can then send a pull request to the original author

User · Answer

click fork button on original github project page clone your forked repository instead original push to it press Pull Requests button on your repository create it wait for original author to accept it

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