Git force user and password prompt

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I recently updated my local Git installation to 1 8 1 from 1 8 0 1     I m noticing that  when I work on GitHub  it doesn t prompt me for username and password on push anymore     This troubles me  as I see having to type user and password every time as a good security measure   what if someone else uses my computer      I checked the following      1 8 0 1 on another computer still asks for username and password  my account on github still enforces private security controls  I am using https remote references  rather than ssh  For good measure  I checked in my    ssh fonder  Nothing wrong there  I m not storing the login details in    gitconfig or individual  lt proj gt   git config files  I m also not storing anything github-related in    netrc  I created a new dummy archive  still doesn t prompt me for login    I couldn t find anything in the git release notes archive     Does anyone know if this is a new git behaviour  How do I restore the prompt

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None of those worked for me  I was trying to clone a directory from a private git server and entered my credentials false and then it wouldn t let me try different credentials on subsequent tries  it just errored out immediately with an authentication error    What did work was specifying the user name  mike-wise in the url like this      git clone https   mike-wise collab somewhere net someuser somerepo git

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Since the question was labeled with Github  adding another remote like https origin and add the https connection can force you always to enter the password   git remote add https origin https   github com

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Add a -v flag with your git command   e g  git pull -v     v stands for verify

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This is most likely because you have multiple accounts  like one private  one for work with GitHub  SOLUTION On Windows  go to Start  gt  Credential Manager  gt  Windows Credentials and remove GitHub creds  then try pulling or pushing again and you will be prompted to relogin into GitHub SOLUTION OnMac  issue following on terminal  git remote set-url origin https   username github com username repo-name git  by replacing  username  with your GitHub username in both places and providing your GitHub repo name

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With git config -l  I now see I have a credential helper osxkeychain option   That means the credential helper  initially introduced in 1 7 10  is now in effect  and will cache automatically the password for accessing a remote repository over HTTP   as in  GIT  Any way to set default login credentials     You can disable that option entirely  or only for a single repo

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Addition to third answer  If you re using non-english Windows  you can find  quot Credentials Manager quot  through  quot Control panel quot   gt   quot User Accounts quot   gt   quot Credentials Manager quot  Icon of Credentials Manager

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