How do I push to GitHub under a different username

Question

A friend and myself are sharing my computer  I ve made pushes to GitHub using the git bash shell on Windows 7  Now we re in a different project on that computer and I need her to push to her account  But it keeps trying to use my username and saying I don t have access to her repository     git push her github repository our branch ERROR  Permission to her username repository git denied to my username  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly

User · Answer

If under Windows and user Git for Windows and the manager for managing the credentials (aka Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows Link) the problem is that there is no easy way to switch amongst users when pushing to GitHub over https using OAuth tokens.

The reason is that the token is stored as:

Internet Address: git:https://github.com
Username: Personal Access Token
Password: OAuth_Token

Variations of the URL in Internet Address don't work, for example:

git:https://[email protected]
git:https://github.com/username
...

The solution: namespaces. This is found in the details for the configuration of the Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows:

https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/blob/master/Docs/Configuration.md

Quoting from it:

namespace

Sets the namespace for stored credentials.

By default the GCM uses the 'git' namespace for all stored credentials, setting this configuration value allows for control of the namespace used globally, or per host.
git config --global credential.namespace name

Now, store your credential in the Windows Credential Manager as:

Internet Address: git.username:https://github.com
Username: Personal Access Token
Password: OAuth_Token

Notice that we have changed: git -> git.username (where you change username to your actual username or for the sake of it, to whatever you may want as unique identifier)

Now, inside the repository where you want to use the specific entry, execute:

git config credential.namespace git.username

(Again ... replace username with your desired value)

Your .git/config will now contain:

[credential]
    namespace = git.username

Et voilá! The right credential will be pulled from the Windows Credential Store.

This, of course, doesn't change which user/e-mail is pushing. For that you have to configure the usual user.name and user.email

User · Answer

I just have included additional user on   repo settings  Manage access  invite a collaborator  and it worked for me

User · Answer

git add   git commit -m  quot initial commit quot  git config --local credential helper  quot  quot  git push https   github com youraccount repo git --all  After this push command  a username password prompt will be opened

User · Answer

If after running git push Git asks for a password of user  but you would like to push as new user  you may want to use git config remote origin url     git push user my host com either branch or path s password    At this point use  C to quit git push and use following to push as new user     git config remote origin url user my host com either branch or path    git config remote origin url new user my host com either branch or path    git push new user my host com either branch or path s password

User · Answer

As mentioned before  you can use   git config user name her username git config user email her email   to manually set username and email for single repo  but you have to add this command   git commit --amend --reset-author   if you have already tried to push before the change  Otherwise the changes doesn t appear in config file

User · Answer

If you use ssh and get      Permission to some username repository git denied to   Alice username   while you don t wanna push as Alice username  make sure Alice username doesn t have your computer s ssh key added to its github account   I deleted my ssh key from alice s github account and the push worked

User · Answer

If you use an SSH URL  git github com username projectname git  rather than an HTTPS URL  you can temporarily specify a different SSH key using the  GIT SSH COMMAND environment variable     GIT SSH COMMAND  ssh -i different private key  git push   As far as I can tell  with SSH URLs  GitHub doesn t care about user names  only about keys  if a user account has access to a repository  and that account has an SSH key  see the SSH keys page in the account settings   then if you use that SSH key to push to that repository  the push will be treated as coming from that user

User · Answer

You can push with using different account   For example  if your account is A which is stored in  gitconfig and you want to use account B which is the owner of the repo you want to push   Account B  B user name  B password Example of SSH link  https   github com B user name project git  The push with B account is     git push https    B user name   B password  github com B user name project git   To see the account in  gitconfig    git config --global --list  git config --global -e   to change account also

User · Answer

It s simple while cloning please take the git URL with your username While committing it will ask your new user password   Eg    git clone https   username github com username reponame git   git clone https   username bitbucket org username reponame git

User · Answer

You can add a new remote URL for the other username using git remote add origin-username https   username github expedia biz repository name git  After this  if you ll push using git push -u origin-username master   this will prompt you for the password

User · Answer

if this is your problem  remote  Permission to username1 repo git denied to username2  fatal  unable to access  https   github com username1 repo git    The requested URL returned error  403   In addition to changing username and email from terminal using git config     git config --global user name  Bob    git config --global user email  bob example com    you ll need to remove authorization info from Keychain  This solution took me several hours to figure out I found that I also had certificate in my Keychain   Open up Keychain access  click on All Items and search for git  Delete all keychain

User · Answer

Follow the following steps   You must understand that  you define author before commiting  the commits are already frozen  they have whatever name is set for their author and committer  and these cannot be changed     you can check what s currently  git config user name git config user email  git config user name  quot your github username quot  git config user email  quot your github email quot     Again check what s currently  git config user name git config user email   Check to whom your commit is tagged to   git log   once you re confirmed that it s tagged to you  then you should move to step 3   In case  the author is wrong then you can easily undo last commit without losing changes   Also  before moving to step3  don t forget to follow step one for sanity check     give yourself a prompt to enter github username and github password  git config --local credential helper  quot  quot  git push   it will ask you to enter your github username and github password

User · Answer

Go to Credential Manager Go to Windows Credentials Delete the entries under Generic Credentials Try connecting again

User · Answer

I have been using one machine to push code to two different GitHub accounts with different username  Assuming you already set up one account and want to add a new one    Generate new SSH key ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  myaddress example com  Save it  but remember not to override the existent one id rsa  Give it a different name  e g  id rsa another Copy the contents of the key to your GitHub account       Settings -  SSH and GPG keys -  New SSH key -  Give a label and paste   the key -  Add SSH key    Add the key to the ssh agent  ssh-add    ssh id rsa another Setup a GitHub host  Create a config file with touch    ssh config and edit the file by providing configurations to your accounts     first account Host github com-first     HostName github com     User git     IdentityFile    ssh id rsa   another account Host github com-another     HostName github com     User git     IdentityFile    ssh id rsa another   Now you should be able to push from different accounts depending on what key you add to the ssh agent  i e  to use your first account  do  ssh-add    ssh id rsa   You might also want to change your user email   git config --global user email  myaddress example com   or clean out ssh keys in case of permission error when pusing code to one of the accounts   ssh-add -D

User · Answer

I setup an ssh alias using a custom IdentityFile and rewrote the origin to use my custom me-github hostname    when prompted enter  id rsa user1  as filename ssh-keygen -t rsa       ssh config Host user1-github HostName github com Port 22 User git IdentityFile    ssh id rsa user1   check original remote origin url git remote -v origin git github com user1 my-repo git   change it to use your custom  user1-github  hostname git remote rm origin git remote add origin git user1-github user1 my-repo git

User · Answer

This worked for me  it will prompt for username and password  git config --local credential helper    git push origin master

User · Answer

I couldn t figure out how to have a 2nd github identity on the one machine  none of these answers worked for me for that   but I did figure out how to be able to push to multiple different github accounts as myself   Push as same username  but to different github accounts   Set up a 2nd SSH key  like so  for your 2nd github account Change between accounts thus     Push with my new 2nd github account  ssh-add -D ssh-add    ssh ssh key for my 2nd account git push   Push with my main account  ssh-add -D ssh-add    ssh id rsa    git push

User · Answer

git config user name only changes the name I commit  I still cannot push  This is how I solved it  and I think is an easy way to me    Generate a SSH key under the user name you want to push on the computer you will use https   help github com articles connecting-to-github-with-ssh  Add this key to the github user account that you want to push to https   help github com articles adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account  Choose to Clone with SSH   You can push in as this user to that repo now

User · Answer

If you have https   desktop github com  then you can go to Preferences  or Options  -  Accounts and then sign out and sign in

User · Answer

The userid where the commit happens is stored in the config file   go to the top of the repository vi  git config  change the url line listed after   remote  origin   to have the appropriate userid

User · Answer

If you use different windows user  your SSH key and git settings will be independent   If this is not an option for you  then your friend should add your SSH key to her Github account   Although  previous solution will keep you pushing as yourself  but it will allow you to push into her repo  If you don t want this and work in different folder on the same pc  you can setup username and email locally inside a folder with git by removing -g flag of the config command   git config user name her username git config user email her email   Alternatively  if you push over https protocol  Github will prompt for username password every time  unless you use a password manager

User · Answer

this  should work  git push origin local-name remote-name Better  for GitLab I use a second  quot origin quot   say  quot origin2 quot   git remote add origin2     then git push origin2 master The conventional  short  git push should work implicitly as with the 1st  quot origin quot

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