How do you reset the stored credentials in git credential-osxkeychain

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I ve followed the GitHub instructions for setting up my account  and I m able to clone  but I m unable to push remotely   When I do a  git push  I get the 403 error  It has the correct URL  I tried a  git credential-osxkeychain get  to see what it was giving  and this prints out the wrong credentials   I believe what happened is the first time it asked for the credentials  I thought it was another application asking  and it put the wrong ones in   I just need to reset it so that it uses the correct keychain item for my GitHub account   I ve tried   git credential-osxkeychain erase git credential-osxkeychain set   The program never gives any prompts  Set will say  bad input  if I don t do the right thing  I tried putting in  password password   etc   but then when I do a  get  I still get the old ones   I can t figure out where these are being stored  as they are not in  gitconfigure  Further there are no recent keychain items that could be it   I have several GitHub accounts in my keychain and it is not using any of them

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GitHub help page for this issue  https   help github com articles updating-credentials-from-the-osx-keychain

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I m not sure how to erase through the command line  but it s fairly easily to do it through the Keychain Access app  Just go to Applications -  Utilties -  Keychain Access  then enter  github com   You can either delete the invalid item or update the password from with the app

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On Mac  use the command git credential-osxkeychain erase   OR remove manually from keychain from Applications   Utilities   Keychain Access  Then remove the github com keychain  Then use push  it will ask for the keychain access  then deny   It will ask for the new username and password  add it then pushes a file for that   After git push I found this error  Then I use the upper case- issue      remote  Permission to user1 file git denied to user2 previously exist   user     fatal  unable to access  https   github com xxxxxxxxxxxx      The requested URL returned error  403

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The solution turned out to be this   The command git credential-osxkeychain was using the first GitHub account entry in my keychain   This one was not the one that had access to the projects in question    I resolved the problem by touching the account in Keychain Access so that its date changed  I think I just changed the comment  and now that it became the most recent GitHub account it became the first one returned to credential-osxkeychain  and thus everything worked    A better form of support for multiple GitHub accounts would be nice  but it is likely that most people only have one primary account and don t run into this problem

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git-credential-osxkeychain stores passwords in the Apple Keychain  as noted above   By default  gitcredentials only considers the domain name  If you want Git to consider the full path  e g  if you have multiple GitHub accounts   set the useHttpPath variable to true  as described at http   git-scm com docs gitcredentials html  Note that changing this setting will ask your credentials again for each URL

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Try running  Applications Utilities Keychain Access

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From Terminal   You need to enter the following three lines     git credential-osxkeychain erase    host github com     protocol https            NOTE  after you enter    protocol https    above you need to press   RETURN   TWICE  Each     is equivalent to a  press enter return

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Try this in your command line  git config --local credential helper  quot  quot  It works for me every time when I have multiple GitHub accounts in OSX keychain

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