Git push results in Authentication Failed

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I have been using Github for a little while and I have been fine with git add  git commit  and git push so far with no problems  Suddenly I am having an error that says      fatal  Authentication Failed   In the terminal I cloned a repository  worked on a file and then I used git add to add the file to the commit log and when I did git commit  it worked fine  Finally  git push asks for username and password  I put those in correctly and every time I do this  it says the same error   Does anyone have any idea what the cause of this problem is and how I can fix it   The contents of  git config are    core          repositoryformatversion   0         filemode   true         bare   false         logallrefupdates   true  remote  origin           url   http   www github com        Random-Python-Tests         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    branch  master           remote   origin         merge   refs heads master  user          name                 email

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Make sure you have WRITE permission to push   read    write    admin

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In my case  I recently changed my windows password and I have SSH key configured for git related actions  pull  push  fetch etc     after I encountered the  fatal  Authentication failed  error  I updated my password in the windows credential manager  Control Panel User Accounts Credential Manager for all items starting with git      and tried again  worked this time

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I think that for some reason GitHub is expecting the URL to NOT have subdomain www  When I use  for example   git remote set-url origin https   www github com name repo git   it gives the following messages   remote  Anonymous access to name repo git denied fatal  Authentication failed for https   www github com name repo git   However  if I use  git remote set-url origin https   github com name repo git   it works perfectly fine  Doesn t make too much sense to me    but I guess remember not to put www in the remote URL for GitHub repositories   Also notice the clone URLs provided on the GitHub repository webpage doesn t include the www

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May you have changed password recently for you git account You could try the git push with -u option  git push -u origin branch name that you want to push   After executing above command it will ask for password provide your updated password  Hope it may help you

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If you are on windows and trying to push to a windows server which has domain users working as repository users  TFS   try getting into TFS URL  i e  http   tfs  with IE  enter your domain account credentials and let the page appear   CAUTION only use INTERNET EXPLORER  other browsers wont change your system credentials   Now go to git bash and  change your remote user for the repository like below    git config user name  domainName userName    And done  now you can push

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For me  I forgot that I had changed the password on Github com  and my keychain for shell authentication never updated to that new password  Deleting everything git from my keychain and then re-running the git request helped solve the issue  prompting me again for the new password

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in Android studio canary build 3 1   if you are using Android studio git tool  than you can use following     Click on Android Studio Click on Preferences    GO in VersionControl -  Github Here Change Auth type to Password This step will require you to enter login and password  Enter you github user name a s login and github password as password  Click on Test Button     If connection is successful   than you are done and you can use android studio github UI client

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This the way  I resolved my access denied problem in GIT GUI and git bash   This SSH key is copy-pasted in the GitHub access token  For me everything was fine  I also tried the Windows Credentials Manager but then also the problem was not resolved  Then suddenly  I got pop up from the firewall  which was the main culprit behind all  After I clicked on allow manually then I could fetch or push to GitHub

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Just from your  config file change   url   http   www github com    user    Random-Python-Tests  To   url   http      user    github com    user    Random-Python-Tests

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Basically my credential was expired  and I was facing above issue   Following 2 command helped me   git config --global --unset credential helper  git config credential helper store   It will asks you for credentials next time when you try to push    Follow below guidelines for more details for secured and unsecured storage of user name and passwords   https   git-scm com docs git-credential-store  https   git-scm com docs git-credential-cache

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I was facing the same issue on windows  Most of the time I normally face the issue due to using multiple git accounts  If you are on windows  please do open the terminal as an administrator and try running the commands again  Make sure that you have the administrator access rights

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First  you can make sure to use the proper url   git remote set-url origin https   github com zkirkland Random-Python-Tests git   Then  if it was working before  and if it wasn t asking for you username  it must be because you had stored your credentials  login password  in a  HOME  netrc file  as explained here  You can double-check those settings  and make sure that your proxy  if you have one  hasn t changed   If that still doesn t work  you can switch to an ssh url   git remote set-url origin git github com zkirkland Random-Python-Tests git   But that means you have published your ssh public key in your Account settings

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I m not really sure what I did to get this error  but doing   git remote set-url origin https         didn t work for me  However   git remote set-url origin git bitbucket org user repo   somehow worked

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This worked for me  and it also remembers my credentials    Run gitbash Point to the repo directory Run git config --global credential helper wincred

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It happens if you change your login or password of git service account  Git   You need to change it in Windows Credentials Manager too  type  Credential Manager  in Windows Search menu open it   Windows Credentials Manager- Windows Credential  and under Generic Credentials edit your git password

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I was adding to Bitbucket linked with Git and had to remove the stored keys  as this was causing the fatal error   To resolve  I opened the command prompt and ran    rundll32 exe keymgr dll  KRShowKeyMgr   I removed the key that was responsible for signing in and next time I pushed the files to the repo  I was prompted for credentials and entered the correct ones  resulting in a successful push

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Before you try everything above  try to git push again  yes it works on me

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I ve ran into     git fetch fatal  Authentication failed for  http          after my windows password has expired and was changed  Multiple fetches  reboot and even reinstall of git with windows credential manager didn t help   Surprisingly the right answer somewhere here in comments but not in answers  and some of them are really weird    You need to go to Control panel -  Credential Manager   Windows Credentials and update you password for git http   yourrepoaddress

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Just to chime in here  what fixed the issue for me was I simply canceled out of the initial prompt  the ssh one opened up with my bitbucket account  I entered the password there and everything worked as expected

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I tried the token verification method and got it to work  3 times and wasted around 2 hours of time for that  For some reason it does not work very well for our company   My solution was to change the authentication method from HTTPS to SSH  Here is a Github guide  https   help github com en github authenticating-to-github generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent    After you have created the SSH key  remember to change the SSH address origin   git remote add origin git github com user repo git

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This happened to us after forcing  Two Factor Authentication  before login from Gitlab  We had to paste the text inside id rsa pub to Gitlab  and then reintroduce the repository in VS code using the terminal

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If you enabled two-factor authentication in your Github account you   won t be able to push via HTTPS using your accounts password  Instead   you need to generate a personal access token  This can be done in the   application settings of your Github account  Using this token as your   password should allow you to push to your remote repository via HTTPS    Use your username as usual    https   help github com articles creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line   You may also need to update the origin for your repository if set to https    git remote -v  git remote remove origin  git remote add origin git github com user repo git

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In case this is tangentially helpful  since this question is now a top hit for http authentication problems with git  Windows Credential Manager had stored my password correctly  and since I was using Git LFS I configured an http URL instead of the usual ssh      My problem was that my corporate password policy forced an account password change but I never updated my stored credentials  since I always use an ssh key    Simply updating the password directly in the Wincred GUI worked  just look for a git https    lt your-url gt  entry

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with correct credentials if the problem prevails   if your using androidstudio 2 1 beta then its bug   upgrade  to beta 2  3 mb update file    this worked for me

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Make sure that your ssh key is added to your current ssh session    Copy the output of cat    ssh id rsa pub to your GitHub settings under SSH and GPG keys  Update your current ssh session with ssh-add    ssh id rsa pub   I am using Windows Powershell with Openssh installed

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If you found authentication error problem when you entered correct password and username it s git problem  To solves this problem when you are installing the git in your machine uncheck the enable git credential manager

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If you have enabled the two-factor authentication on your Github account  then sign in to your GitHub account and go to  https   github com settings tokens new to generate new access token  copy that token and paste as a password for authentication in terminal

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I had the same problem  I set url in that way   git remote set-url origin https   github com zkirkland Random-Python-Tests git  I also removed from config file this entry  askpass    bin echo  Then  git push  asked me for username and password and this time it worked

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I also ran into the error  that s why I am landed here   but none of the suggestions worked for me  This was my very first time I try to deploy local Git to azure  When I got this error  I reset my credentials  by clicking the link in Azure  after a few tries  The problem is that at this point it tells me my user name is already taken  so I also changed my user name to another one  In the end  I manually deleted the  git folder on my local drive  and redeployed it without problem

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Hi  I was getting the same error i tried all the solutions whichever mentioned in this page  but didn t work  Finally  i found the solution  So thought of posting it  Please correct me if i am wrong anywhere  These kinds of error comes if sometimes your system password has changed recently anytime  It will try to validate from old password  So  Follow these steps    Go to control panel  Click on User accounts  Under Credentials manager Go to Manage windows credentials  Go to Generic credentials  Expand git server tab  click on Remove from vault    Also you can click edit and change your password stored here directly

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Try the following steps to Edit or Remove the saved credentials    Click Start  Type  Credential Manager  On Windows 10  this is under  Start- Settings   Then search for  Credential Manager   See the Windows Credentials Manager shortcut and double-click it to open the application   Once the app is open  click on the Windows Credentials tab   Locate the  credentials that you want to remove update  they will start with     git   and might begin with  ada    Click on the credential entry  it will open a details view of the entry   Click Edit or Remove as required and confirm   Wash  rinse  repeat as necessary

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If you are using ssh and cloned with https this will not work  Clone with ssh and then push and pulls should work as expected

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Problem Statement   git fatal authentication failed   I am using bitbucket   Solution  I simply deleted the user from using access management of bitbucket and then added the same user  The  gitconfig file is simple   user      name   BlaBla     email   blabla gmail com   push      default   simple

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