Why is Github asking for username password when following the instructions on screen and pushing a new repo

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I m the owner of an organization on github and just created a repo and tried pushing but I m running into an issue where it s asking me for my username even though I can SSH just fine     ssh -T git github com Hi Celc  You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access    git add     git commit -m  first commit   master  root-commit  3f1b963  first commit  6 files changed  59 insertions     create mode 100644  gitignore  create mode 100644 main js  create mode 100644 package json  create mode 100644 readme markdown  create mode 100644 views index ejs  create mode 100644 views layout ejs   git remote add origin https   github com WEMP project-slideshow git   git push -u origin master Username for  https   github com     What am I doing wrong  This has never happened to me before but I recently also upgraded to git 1 7 10 3

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Don t use HTTP use SSH instead  change   https   github com WEMP project-slideshow git    to   git github com WEMP project-slideshow git   you can do it in  git config file

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an additional note    if you have already added a remote   git remote add origin       and need to change that particular remote then do a remote remove first    git remote rm origin   before re-adding the new and improved repo URL  where  origin  was the name for the remote repo    so to use the original example      git remote add origin https   github com WEMP project-slideshow git   git remote rm origin   git remote add origin https   github-username github com WEMP project-slideshow git

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Because you are using HTTPS way HTTPS requires that you type your account access every time you try to push or pull but there is one way too  called SSH  and it lets you to tell git  that I give you permission with my account for this pc  and never ask me again about any user access  To use it  you have to generate SSH key and add it into your Github s account just one time To do that  you can follow these steps   How To Generate SSH key for Github

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If you re using HTTPS  check to make sure that your URL is correct  For example     git clone https   github com wellle targets git Cloning into  targets     Username for  https   github com    C    git clone https   github com wellle targets vim git Cloning into  targets vim     remote  Counting objects  2182  done  remote  Total 2182  delta 0   reused 0  delta 0   pack-reused 2182 Receiving objects  100   2182 2182   595 77 KiB   0 bytes s  done  Resolving deltas  100   1044 1044   done

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I ve just had an email from a github com admin stating the following   quot We normally advise people to use the HTTPS URL unless they have a specific reason to be using the SSH protocol  HTTPS is secure and easier to set up  so we default to that when a new repository is created  quot  The password prompt does indeed accept the normal github com login details   A tutorial on how to set up password caching can be found here  I followed the steps in the tutorial  and it worked for me

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If you ve enabled two factor authentication  then you ll need to generate a personal access token and use that instead of your regular password   More info here  https   help github com articles creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use

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Here is an official answer to this   If Git prompts you for a username and password every time you try to interact with GitHub  you re probably using the HTTPS clone URL for your repository  Using an HTTPS remote URL has some advantages  it s easier to set up than SSH  and usually works through strict firewalls and proxies  However  it also prompts you to enter your GitHub credentials every time you pull or push a repository  You can configure Git to store your password for you  If you d like to set that up  read all about setting up password caching

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Improving upon  Ianl s answer           It seems that if 2-step authentication is enabled  you have to use token instead of password      You could generate a token here       If you want to disable the prompts for both the username and password then you can set the URL as follows -  git remote set-url origin https   username password github com WEMP project-slideshow git   Note that the URL has both the username and password  Also the  git config file should show your current settings     Update 20200128   If you don t want to store the password in the config file  then you can generate your personal token and replace the password with the token  Here are some details   It would look like this -  git remote set-url origin https   username token github com WEMP project-slideshow git

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I had this same issue and wondered why it didn t happen with a bitbucket repo that was cloned with https  Looking into it a bit I found that the config for the BB repo had a URL that included my username   So I manually edited the config for my GH repo like so and voila  no more username prompt  I m on Windows   Edit your repo dir  git config  remember   git folder is hidden   Change   https   github com WEMP project-slideshow git   to   https    username  github com WEMP project-slideshow git   Save the file  Do a git pull to test it   The proper way to do this is probably by using git bash commands to edit the setting  but editing the file directly didn t seem to be a problem

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