Can t clone a github repo on Linux via HTTPS

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I m trying to do a simple git clone https   github com org project git on a CentOS box but get      error  The requested URL returned error  401 while accessing   https   github com org project git info refs      fatal  HTTP request failed   It never prompts me for my username password  just fails   I can make the exact same call on my Mac no problem- what am I missing

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I met the same problem  the error message and OS info are as follows  OS info      CentOS release 6 5  Final       Linux 192-168-30-213 2 6 32-431 el6 x86 64  1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03 15 09 UTC 2013 x86 64 x86 64 x86 64 GNU Linux   error info      Initialized empty Git repository in  home techops pyenv  git    Password    error   while accessing https   waterdrops github com pyenv pyenv git info refs      fatal  HTTP request failed   git  amp  curl version info     git info  git version 1 7 1       curl 7 19 7  x86 64-redhat-linux-gnu  libcurl 7 19 7 NSS 3 14 0 0 zlib 1 2 3 libidn 1 18 libssh2 1 4 2   Protocols  tftp ftp telnet dict ldap ldaps http file https ftps scp sftp   Features  GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz   debugging       curl --verbose https   github com         About to connect   to github com port 443   0    Trying 13 229 188 59    connected   Connected to github com  13 229 188 59  port 443   0    Initializing NSS with certpath  sql  etc pki nssdb   CAfile   etc pki tls certs ca-bundle crt   CApath  none   NSS error -12190   Error in TLS handshake  trying SSLv3      GET   HTTP 1 1   User-Agent  curl 7 19 7  x86 64-redhat-linux-gnu  libcurl 7 19 7 NSS 3 14 0 0 zlib 1 2 3 libidn 1 18 libssh2 1 4 2   Host  github com   Accept      Connection died  retrying a fresh connect   Closing connection  0   Issue another request to this URL   https   github com    About to connect   to github com port 443   0    Trying 13 229 188 59    connected   Connected to github com  13 229 188 59  port 443   0    TLS disabled due to previous handshake failure   CAfile   etc pki tls certs ca-bundle crt   CApath  none   NSS error -12286   Closing connection  0   SSL connect error   curl   35  SSL connect error      after upgrading curl   libcurl and nss   git clone works fine again  so here it is  the update command is as follows     sudo yum update -y nss curl libcurl

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As JERC said  make sure you have an updated version of git  If you are only using the default settings  when you try to install git you will get version 1 7 1  Other than manually downloading and installing the latest version of get  you can also accomplish this by adding a new repository to yum   From tecadmin net   Download and install the rpmforge repository     use this for 64-bit rpm -i  http   pkgs repoforge org rpmforge-release rpmforge-release-0 5 3-1 el6 rf x86 64 rpm    use this for 32-bit rpm -i  http   pkgs repoforge org rpmforge-release rpmforge-release-0 5 3-1 el6 rf i686 rpm     then run this in either case rpm --import http   apt sw be RPM-GPG-KEY dag txt   Then you need to enable the rpmforge-extras  Edit  etc yum repos d rpmforge repo and change enabled   0 to enabled   1 under  rpmforge-extras   The file looks like this       Name  RPMforge RPM Repository for RHEL 6 - dag     URL  http   rpmforge net   rpmforge  name   RHEL  releasever - RPMforge net - dag baseurl   http   apt sw be redhat el6 en  basearch rpmforge mirrorlist   http   mirrorlist repoforge org el6 mirrors-rpmforge  mirrorlist   file    etc yum repos d mirrors-rpmforge enabled   1 protect   0 gpgkey   file    etc pki rpm-gpg RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck   1   rpmforge-extras  name   RHEL  releasever - RPMforge net - extras baseurl   http   apt sw be redhat el6 en  basearch extras mirrorlist   http   mirrorlist repoforge org el6 mirrors-rpmforge-extras  mirrorlist   file    etc yum repos d mirrors-rpmforge-extras enabled   0         CHANGE THIS LINE TO  enabled   1                protect   0 gpgkey   file    etc pki rpm-gpg RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck   1   rpmforge-testing  name   RHEL  releasever - RPMforge net - testing baseurl   http   apt sw be redhat el6 en  basearch testing mirrorlist   http   mirrorlist repoforge org el6 mirrors-rpmforge-testing  mirrorlist   file    etc yum repos d mirrors-rpmforge-testing enabled   0 protect   0 gpgkey   file    etc pki rpm-gpg RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck   1   Once you ve done this  then you can update git with  yum update git   I m not sure why  but they then suggest disabling rpmforge-extras  change back to enabled   0  and then running yum clean all   Most likely you ll need to use sudo for these commands

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This is the dumbest answer to this question  but check the status of GitHub  This one got me

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I had to specify user name to work on 1 7 1 git version   git remote set-url origin https   username github com org project git

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Make sure you have git 1 7 10 or later  it now prompts for user password correctly   You can download the latest version here

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The answer was simple but not obvious   Instead of   git clone https   github com org project git   do   git clone https   username github com org project git   or  insecure   git clone https   username password github com org project git    Note that in the later case  your password will may be visible by other users on your machine by running ps u -u  you and will appear cleartext in your shell s history by default   All 3 ways work on my Mac  but only the last 2 worked on the remote Linux box   Thinking back on this  it s probably because I had a global git username set up on my Mac  whereas on the remote box I did not  That might have been the case  but the lack of prompt for a username tripped me up        Haven t seen this documented anywhere  so here it is

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I had the same problem and error  In my case it was the https proxy not set  Setting the https proxy environment variable fixed the issue     export https proxy https    lt porxy addres gt   lt proxy port gt    Example     export https proxy https   my proxy company com 8000   Hope this help somebody

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You can manual disable ssl verfiy  and try again      git config --global http sslverify false

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I was able to get a git 1 7 1  to work after quite some time   First  I had to do disable SSL just so I could pull   git config --global http sslverify false   Then I could clone  git clone https   github com USERNAME PROJECTNAME git   Then after adding and committing i was UNABLE to push back  So i did  git remote -v  origin  https   github com USERNAME PROJECTNAME git  fetch  origin  https   github com USERNAME PROJECTNAME git  push    to see the pull and push adresses   These must be modified with USERNAME   git remote set-url origin https   USERNAME github com USERNAME PROJECTNAME git   It will still prompt you for a password  which you could add with   USERNAME PASSWORD github        But dont do that  as you save your password in cleartext for easy theft    I had to do this combination since I could not get SSH to work due to firewall limitations

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