Remove credentials from Git

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I m working with several repositories  but lately I was just working in our internal one and all was great   Today I had to commit and push code into other one  but I m having some troubles     git push appharbor master error  The requested URL returned error  403 while accessing https   gavekortet appharbor com mitivo git info refs service git-receive-pack fatal  HTTP request failed   There is nothing I can do  that would bring the password entry again   How can I reset the credentials on my system so Git will ask me for the password of that repository   I have tried    git config --global --unset core askpass   in order to unset the password   git config credential helper  cache --timeout 1    in order to avoid credentials cache     Nothing seems to work  does anyone have a better idea

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You can remove the line credential helper  github --credentials from the following file C  Program Files Git mingw64 etc gitconfig in order to remove the credentials for git

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Update Actually useHttpPath is a git configuration  which should work for all GCMs  Corrected  Summary of The Original Question  working with git on Windows working on multiple repositories on GitHub wrong credentials used for another GitHub repository  Although the title says  quot Remove credentials quot   the description leads me to the assumption that you may have multiple accounts on GitHub  e g  for job-related vs  private projects   At least that issue made me find this topic   If so read on  otherwise ignore the answer  but it may come in handy at some time  Reason Git Credential Managers  short GCM  like Microsoft s GCM for Windows store credentials per host by default  This can be verified by checking the Windows Credential Manager  see other answers how to access it on English  French and German Windows versions   So working with multiple accounts on the same host  here github com  is not possible by default  In October 2020 GCM for Windows got deprecated and superseeded by GCM Core  The information here still applies for the new GCM and it should even use the credentials stored by GCM for Windows  Solution Configure git to include the full path to the repository as additional information for each credential entry  Also documented on GCM for Windows  I personally prefer to include the HTTP S   repository  path to be able to use a separate account for each and every repository  For all possible hosts  git config --global credential useHttpPath true  For github com only  git config --global credential github com useHttpPath true  Have a look at the GCM and git docs and maybe you want to specify something different

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On Windows  at least  git remote show  remote-name  will work  e g    git remote show origin

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Go to C  Users  lt current-user gt  check for  git-credentials file Delete content or modify as per your requirement  Restart your terminal

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I found something that worked for me  When I wrote my comment to the OP I had failed to check the system config file    git config --system -l   shows a  credential helper  github --credentials   line  I unset it with  git config --system --unset credential helper   and now the credentials are forgotten

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This approach worked for me and should be agnostic of OS  It s a little heavy-handed  but was quick and allowed me to reenter credentials  Simply find the remote alias for which you wish to reenter credentials    git remote -v  origin  https   bitbucket org org  username your-project git  fetch  origin  https   bitbucket org org  username your-project git  push   Copy the project path  https   bitbucket org org  username your-project git  Then remove the remote   git remote remove origin  Then add it back   git remote add origin https   bitbucket org org  username your-project git

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Building from  patthoyts s high-voted answer  https   stackoverflow com a 15382950 4401322    His answer uses but doesn t explain  local  vs   global  vs   system  configs  The official git documentation for them is here and worth reading    For example  I m on Linux  and don t use a system config  so I never use a --system flag  but do commonly need to differentiate between --local and --global configs   My use case is I ve got two Github crendentials  one for work  and one for play   Here s how I would handle the problem     cd work   do and commit work   git push origin develop   Possibly prompted for credentials if I haven t configured my remotes to automate that     We re assuming that now I ve stored my  work  credentials with git s credential helper     cd   play    do and commit play   git push origin develop                                                                    remote  Permission to whilei specs git denied to whilei                  fatal  unable to access  https   github com workname specs git    The requested URL returned error  403    So here s where it goes down    git config --list   grep cred credential helper store   One of these is for  local  credential helper store   And one is for  global     git config --global --unset credential helper   git config --list   grep cred credential helper store   My  local  config still specifies  store    git config --unset credential helper   git push origin develop Username for  https   github com   whilei Password for  https   whilei github com   Counting objects  3  done  Delta compression using up to 12 threads  Compressing objects  100   2 2   done  Writing objects  100   3 3   1 10 KiB   1 10 MiB s  done  Total 3  delta 1   reused 0  delta 0  remote  Resolving deltas  100   1 1   completed with 1 local object  To https   github com whilei specs git    b2ca528  f64f065  master - gt  master    Now let s turn credential-helping back on    git config --global credential helper  store    git config credential helper  store    git config --list   grep cred credential helper store   Put it back the way it was  credential helper store   It s also worth noting that there are ways to avoid this problem altogether  for example  you can use    ssh config s with associated SSH keys for Github  one for work  one for play  and correspondingly custom-named remote hosts to solve authentication contextualizing too

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In case Git Credential Manager for Windows is used  which current versions usually do    git credential-manager clear   This was added mid-2016  To check if credential manager is used   git config --global credential helper   manager

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Remove this line from your  gitconfig file located in the Windows  currently logged-in user folder    credential  helper      C  Program Files  x86  GitExtensions GitCredentialWinStore git-credential-winstore exe     This worked for me and now when I push to remote it asks for my password again

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This error appears when you are using multiple Git accounts on the same machine   If you are using macOS then you can remove the saved credentials of github com   Please follow below steps to remove the github com credentials    Open Keychain Access Find github Select the github com and Right click on it  Delete  github com  Try again to Push or Pull to git and it will ask for the credentials   Enter valid credentials for repository account  Done

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If your credentials are stored in the credential helper  generally the case   the portable way to remove a password persisted for a specific host is to call git credential reject   in one line    echo  quot url https   appharbor com quot    git credential reject   or interactively    git credential reject protocol https host gitlab com username me example com       is the Enter symbol  just hit Enter key twice at the end of input  don t copy paste it The username doesn t seem recognized by wincred  so avoid to filter by username on Windows    After that  to enter your new password  type git fetch  https   git-scm com docs git-credential

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As Mentioned by Everyone above  This is a Git Credential Manager Issue   Due to permissions  I could not modify my credentials or manipulate the credential manager  I also could not afford to sit password in plain text on pc   A workaround was deleting the remote branch in intellij and re-adding the remote branch  This removes the stored credential and forces refreshing of the credential

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To add to  ericbn  s https   stackoverflow com a 41111629 579827 here are sample commands I ve embedded in a script I run to update all my passwords whenever they are renewed  It s probably not usable as-is as it s quite specific but it shows real life usage of cmdkey exe     This is a shell script run in cygwin     This works because I use private git repos that all authenticate with the same password  you probably don t want to loop over with the same credentials  but you may reuse this sample  list command to extract a list of already registered credentials     entries  cmdkey exe  list    grep git   sed -r -e  s         s        1 gm   for entry in   entries  do     cmdkey exe  quot  delete   entry  quot      cmdkey exe  quot  generic   entry  quot   quot  user   GIT USERNAME  quot   quot  pass   GIT PASSWORD  quot  done

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Answer for Mac Devices  Go to Applications Utilities Keychain Acccess Search for git credentials  and delete the git credentials for the desired URL

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Execute the following command in a PowerShell console to clear Git Credentials Managers for Windows cache  rm  env LOCALAPPDATA GitCredentialManager tenant cache  or in Cmd exe rm  LOCALAPPDATA  GitCredentialManager tenant cache

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The Git credential cache runs a daemon process which caches your credentials in memory and hands them out on demand  So killing your git-credential-cache--daemon process throws all these away and results in re-prompting you for your password if you continue to use this as the cache helper option  You could also disable use of the Git credential cache using git config --global --unset credential helper  Then reset this  and you would continue to have the cached credentials available for other repositories  if any   You may also need to do git config --system --unset credential helper if this has been set in the system configuration file  for example  Git for Windows 2   On Windows you might be better off using the manager helper  git config --global credential helper manager   This stores your credentials in the Windows credential store which has a Control Panel interface where you can delete or edit your stored credentials  With this store  your details are secured by your Windows login and can persist over multiple sessions  The manager helper included in Git for Windows 2 x has replaced the earlier wincred helper that was added in Git for Windows 1 8 1 1  A similar helper called winstore is also available online and was used with GitExtensions as it offers a more GUI driven interface  The manager helper offers the same GUI interface as winstore  Extract from the Windows 10 support page detailing the Windows credential manager   To open Credential Manager  type  quot credential manager quot  in the search box on the taskbar and select Credential Manager Control panel   And then select Windows Credentials to edit   remove or modify  the stored git credentials for a given URL

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For macOS users   This error appears when you are using multiple Git accounts on the same machine  Please follow below steps to remove the github com credentials    Go to Finder Go to Applications Go to Utilities Folder Open Keychain Access Select the github com and Right click on it  Delete  quot github com quot   Try again to Push or Pull to git and it will ask for the credentials  Enter valid credentials for repository account  Done

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In Windows 2003 Server with  wincred    none of the other answers helped me  I had to use cmdkey    cmdkey  list lists all stored credentials  cmdkey  delete Target deletes the credential with  Target  name         By  wincred  I mean git config --global credential helper wincred

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For Windows 10  go to below path      Control Panel User Accounts Credential Manager   There will be 2 tabs at this location    Web credentials and 2  Windows credentials    Click on Windows credentials tab and here you can see your stored github credentials  under  Generic credentials  heading   You can remove those from here and try and re-clone - it will ask for username password now as we have just removed the stored credential from the Windows 10 systems

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If  you want git to forget old saved credentials and re-enter username and password  you can do that using below command   git credential-cache exit   After running above command  if you try to push anything it will provide option to enter username and password

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If this problem comes on a Windows machine  do the following   Go to Credential Manager  in German  it is called  Anmeldeinformationsverwaltung in French  it is called  Gestionnaire d identification   Go to Windows Credentials Delete the entries under Generic Credentials Try connecting again  This time  it should prompt you for the correct username and password

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If you are authenticated using your key pair  you can deleting or moving your private key  or stopping the key agent and trying

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In my case  Git is using Windows to store credentials   All you have to do is remove the stored credentials stored in your Windows account

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Need to login with respective github username and password   To Clear the username and password in windows   Control Panel User Accounts Credential Manager  Edit the windows Credential    Remove the existing user and now go to command prompt write the push command it shows a github pop-up to enter the username email and password    Now we able to push the code after switching the user

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Try using the below command   git credential-manager   Here you can get various options to manage your credentials  check the below screen      Or you can even directly try this command   git credential-manager uninstall   This will start prompting for passwords again on each server interaction request

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What finally fixed this for me was to use GitHub desktop  go to repository settings  and remove user pass  from the repository url  Then  I attempted a push from the command line and was prompted for login credentials  After I put those in everything went back to normal  Both Visual Studio and command line are working  and of course  GitHub desktop    GitHub Desktop- Repository- Repository Settings- Remote tab  Change Primary Remote Repository  origin  from   https   pork muffins github com MyProject MyProject git  To   https   github com MyProject MyProject git  Click  Save   Credentials will be cleared

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Retype     git config credential helper store   And then you will be prompted to enter your credentials again   WARNING     Using this helper will store your passwords unencrypted on disk   Source  https   git-scm com docs git-credential-store

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You have to update it in your Credential Manager   Go to Control Panel   User Accounts   Credential Manager   Windows Credentials  You will see Git credentials in the list  e g  git https      Click on it  update the password  and execute git pull push command from your Git bash and it won t throw any more error messages

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I faced the same issue as the OP  It was taking my old Git credentials stored somewhere on the system and I wanted to use Git with my new credentials  so I ran the command    git config --system --list   It showed  credential helper manager   Whenever I performed git push it was taking my old username which I set long back  and I wanted to use new a GitHub account to push changes  I later found that my old GitHub account credentials was stored under  Control Panel   User Accounts   Credential Manager   Manage Windows Credentials     I just removed these credentials and when I performed git push it asked me for my GitHub credentials  and it worked like a charm

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Got same error when doing a  git pull  and this is how I fixed it    Change repo to HTTPS Run command git config --system --unset credential helper Run command git config --system --add credential helper manager Test command git pull Enter credentials in the login window that pops up  Git pull completed successfully

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In our case  clearing the password in the user s  git-credentials file worked for us   c  users  username   git-credentials

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git config --list   will show credential helper   manager  this is on a windows machine   To disable this cached username password for your current local git folder  simply enter  git config credential helper      This way  git will prompt for password every time  ignoring what s saved inside  manager

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In your project root folder open  git config  This file has details about remote url and your credentials type  Your current remote url in this file might be storing credentials  Copy remote url from github and update the url in this config file  Like below   remote  quot origin quot       url    update it      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    credential      helper   manager  Now when you try to push your code it will ask for credentials  Thanks

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In my case  I couldn t find the credentials saved in the Windows Credential Manager  Windows 7    I was able to reset my credentials by executing  git config --global credential helper wincred   It was honestly a hail Mary to see if it would wipe out my credentials and it actually worked

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Try this when nothing as mentioned above is working for you   git config credential helper  cache --timeout 30    this will remove the cache every 3sec and will ask for username and password You can re-run the command with increased timeout values

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Using latest version of git for Windows on Windows 10 Professional and I had a similar issue whereby I have two different GitHub accounts and also a Bitbucket account so things got a bit confusing for VS2017  git extensions and git bash   I first checked how git was handling my credentials with this command  run git bash with elevated commands or you get errors    git config --list   I found the entry Credential Manager so I clicked on the START button   typed Credential Manager to and left-clicked on the credential manager yellow safe icon which launched the app    I then clicked on the Windows Credentials tabs and found the entry for my current git account which happened to be Bit-bucket so I deleted this account   But this didn t do the trick so the next step was to unset the credentials and I did this from the repository directory on my laptop that contains the GitHub project I am trying to push to the remote   I typed the following command   git config --system --unset credential helper   Then I did a git push and I was prompted for a GitHub username which I entered  the correct one I needed  and then the associated password and everything got pushed correctly   I am not sure how much of an issue this is going forward most people probably work off the one repository but I have to work across several and using different providers so may encounter this issue again

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