How do I provide a username and password when running git clone git remote git

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I know how to provide a username and password to an HTTPS request like this   git clone https   username password remote   But I d like to know how to provide a username and password to the remote like this   git clone git remote git   I ve tried like this   git clone username password git remote git git clone git username password remote git git clone git remote git username password   But they haven t worked

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This is an excellent Stack Overflow question, and the answers have been very instructive, such that I was able to resolve an annoying problem I ran into recently.

The organization that I work for uses Atlassian's BitBucket product (not Github), essentially their version of GitHub so that repositories can be secured completely on premise. I was running into a similar problem as @coordinate, in that my password was required for a new repository I checked out. My credentials had been saved globally for all BitBucket projects, so I'm not sure what prompted the loss of credentials.

In short, I was able to enter the following GIT command (supplying only my username), which then prompted Git's Credential Manager to prompt me for the password, which I was then able to save.

git clone https://[email protected]/git/[organization]/[team]/[repository.git]

NOTE: the bracketed directory sub-paths simply refer to internal references, and will vary for you!

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If you re using http https and you re looking to FULLY AUTOMATE the process without requiring any user input or any user prompt at all  for example  inside a CI CD pipeline   you may use the following approach leveraging git credential helper  GIT CREDS PATH   my random path to a git creds file    Or you may choose to not specify GIT CREDS PATH at all    See https   git-scm com docs git-credential-store FILES for the defaults used  git config --global credential helper  store --file   GIT CREDS PATH   echo  https   alice   ALICE GITHUB PASSWORD  github com   gt    GIT CREDS PATH    where you may choose to set the ALICE GITHUB PASSWORD environment variable from a previous shell command or from your pipeline config etc   Remember that  store  based git-credential-helper stores passwords  amp  values in plain-text  So make sure your token password has very limited permissions     Now simply use https   alice github com my repo git wherever your automated system needs to fetch the repo - it will use the credentials for alice in github com as store by git-credential-helper

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Based on Michael Scharf s comment   You can leave out the password so that it won t be logged in your Bash history file   git clone https   username github com username repository git   It will prompt you for your password   Alternatively  you may use   git clone https   username password github com username repository git   This way worked for me from a GitHub repository

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The user host path to repo format tells Git to use ssh to log in to host with username user   From git help clone      An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol        user  host xz path to repo git    The part before the   is the username  and the authentication method  password  public key  etc   is determined by ssh  not Git   Git has no way to pass a password to ssh  because ssh might not even use a password depending on the configuration of the remote server   Use ssh-agent to avoid typing passwords all the time  If you don t want to type your ssh password all the time  the typical solution is to generate a public private key pair  put the public key in your    ssh authorized keys file on the remote server  and load your private key into ssh-agent   Also see Configuring Git over SSH to login once  GitHub s help page on ssh key passphrases  gitolite s ssh documentation  and Heroku s ssh keys documentation   Choosing between multiple accounts at GitHub  or Heroku or      If you have multiple accounts at a place like GitHub or Heroku  you ll have multiple ssh keys  at least one per account    To pick which account you want to log in as  you have to tell ssh which private key to use   For example  suppose you had two GitHub accounts   foo and bar   Your ssh key for foo is    ssh foo github id and your ssh key for bar is    ssh bar github id   You want to access git github com foo foo git with your foo account and git github com bar bar git with your bar account   You would add the following to your    ssh config   Host gh-foo     Hostname github com     User git     IdentityFile    ssh foo github id Host gh-bar     Hostname github com     User git     IdentityFile    ssh bar github id   You would then clone the two repositories as follows   git clone gh-foo foo foo git    logs in with account foo git clone gh-bar bar bar git    logs in with account bar   Avoiding ssh altogether  Some services provide HTTP access as an alternative to ssh    GitHub   https   username password github com username repository git  Gitorious   https   username password gitorious org project repository git  Heroku   See this support article    WARNING   Adding your password to the clone URL will cause Git to store your plaintext password in  git config   To securely store your password when using HTTP  use a credential helper   For example   git config --global credential helper cache git config --global credential https   github com username foo git clone https   github com foo repository git   The above will cause Git to ask for your password once every 15 minutes  by default    See git help credentials for details

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On Windows  the following steps should re-trigger the GitHub login window when git cloneing    Search start menu for  Credential Manager  Select  Windows Credentials  Delete any credentials related to Git or GitHub

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In the comments of  Bassetassen s answer   plosco mentioned that you can use git clone https    lt token gt  github com username repository git to clone from GitHub at the very least  I thought I would expand on how to do that  in case anyone comes across this answer like I did while trying to automate some cloning  GitHub has a very handy guide on how to do this  but it doesn t cover what to do if you want to include it all in one line for automation purposes  It warns that adding the token to the clone URL will store it in plaintext in  git config  This is obviously a security risk for almost every use case  but since I plan on deleting the repo and revoking the token when I m done  I don t care  1  Create a Token GitHub has a whole guide here on how to get a token  but here s the TL DR   Go to Settings  gt  Developer Settings  gt  Personal Access Tokens  here s a direct link  Click  quot Generate a New Token quot  and enter your password again   here s another direct link  Set a description name for it  check the  quot repo quot  permission and hit the  quot Generate token quot  button at the bottom of the page  Copy your new token before you leave the page  2  Clone the Repo Same as the command  plosco gave  git clone https    lt token gt  github com  lt username gt   lt repository gt  git  just replace  lt token gt    lt username gt  and  lt repository gt  with whatever your info is  If you want to clone it to a specific folder  just insert the folder address at the end like so  git clone https    lt token gt  github com  lt username gt   lt repository git gt   lt folder gt   where  lt folder gt  is  you guessed it  the folder to clone it to  You can of course use           etc  here like you can elsewhere  3  Leave No Trace Not all of this may be necessary  depending on how sensitive what you re doing is   You probably don t want to leave that token hanging around if you have no intentions of using it for some time  so go back to the tokens page and hit the delete button next to it  If you don t need the repo again  delete it rm -rf  lt folder gt   If do need the repo again  but don t need to automate it again  you can remove the remote by doing git remote remove origin or just remove the token by running git remote set-url origin https   github com  lt username gt   lt repository git gt   Clear your bash history to make sure the token doesn t stay logged there  There are many ways to do this  see this question and this question  However  it may be easier to just prepend all the above commands with a space in order to prevent them being stored to begin with   Note that I m no pro  so the above may not be secure in the sense that no trace would be left for any sort of forensic work

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git config --global core askpass   Run this first before cloning the same way  should be fixed

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I solved this problem in the following way

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Though there are many answers  myself facing the repeated issue when username or password has special characters in it   URL encode your username and password for git  then use it as part of URL itself  when there is no security concern    Say  URL encoded value of username       user 1  is user 2B1   and URL encoded value of password       Welcome 1234  is Welcome 401234   Then your GIT Clone URL would look like      git clone https   user 2B1 Welcome 401234 actual-git-url-for-the-repo works perfectly  whereas        git clone https   user 1 Welcome 1234 actual-git-url-for-the-repo gives you 403 errors   Hope this helps   Just in case  want to URL encode online  https   www urlencoder org

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I prefer to use GIT ASKPASS environment for providing HTTPS credentials to git  Provided that login and password are exported in USR and PSW variables  the following script does not leave traces of password in history and disk   it is not vulnerable to special characters in the password  GIT ASKPASS   mktemp   amp  amp  chmod a rx  GIT ASKPASS  amp  amp  export GIT ASKPASS  cat  gt   GIT ASKPASS  lt  lt  EOF     bin sh exec echo  quot  PSW quot  EOF  git clone https     USR  example com repo git  Note single quotes around heredoc marker  EOF  which means that temporary script holds literally  PSW characters  not the password

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