git clone Authentication failed for URL

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Trying to access private corporate tfs  They gave me access by giving appropriate rights to windows user  domain login    I m fine with accessing web interface of tfs  browse repository and stuff   But when I try to run    git clone https   tfs somehostname com tfs somefolder  git therepository   It fails with   Cloning into  therepository      fatal  Authentication failed for  https   tfs somehostname com tfs somefolder  git therepository     Tried with home pc without corporate network stuff - same error   Tried in PowerShell  Git Bash  Clone via VisualStudio - same error   SSH is closed  gave request timeout    Web  amp  Git both ask for credentials once  tried deleting in Credentials Manager - asks again  after submitting web is fine  git fails   Corporate helper tried to help  but all he gave is tfs logs  He says  my username doesn t come with requests  tracked by syncing my attempts timestamps with logs    2018-07-19 07 04 00 SOMEIP GET  tfs SOMEFOLDER  git REPOSITORY info refs service git-upload-pack 443 - ANOTHERIP git 2 12 2  Microsoft Windows NT 6 3 9600 0  Win32NT x64  CLR 4 0 30319 VS15 15 0 0 - 401 2 5 62 2018-07-19 07 23 00 SOMEIP GET  tfs SOMEFOLDER  git REPOSITORY info refs service git-upload-pack 443 - ANOTHERIP git 2 18 0 windows 1 - 401 2 5 62 2018-07-19 07 23 00 SOMEIP GET  tfs SOMEFOLDER  git REPOSITORY info refs service git-upload-pack 443 - ANOTHERIP git 2 18 0 windows 1 - 401 1 3221225581 187   while others include it  2018-07-19 05 44 27 SOMEIP GET  tfs SOMEFOLDER  git REPOSITORY info refs service git-upload-pack 443 DOMAIN LOGIN ANOTHERIP git 2 12 2  Microsoft Windows NT 6 1 7601 Service Pack 1  Win32NT x64  CLR 4 0 30319 VS15 15 0 0 - 200 0 0 265

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In my case the error was some old username and password was stored in cache.

So I removed it by going to sourceTree and delete the existing account.

Now for the new clone then it will ask you for the password for the repo.

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I m facing exactly same error when I m trying to clone a repository on a brand new machine  I m using Git bash as my Git client  When I ran Git s command to clone a repository it was not prompting me for user id and password which will be used for authentication  It was a fresh machine where not a single credential was cached by Windows credential manager  As a last resort  I manually added my credentials in credentials manager  Go to  gt  Control Panel User Accounts Credential Manager  gt  Windows Credentials Click Add a Windows credential link and then Supply the details as shown in the form below and you re done   I had put the details as below  Internet or network address   lt gitRepoServerNameOrIPAddress gt  User Name  MyCompanysDomainName MyUserName Password  MyPassword  Next time you run any Git command targeting a repository set up on above address this manually created credential will be used  It is also important if you have a git command line you close it and reopen it for changes to be applied

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I had this same issue with my windows 10 machine  I tried many solutions but nor worked until I installed the latest git version  https   git-scm com downloads

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As the other answers suggest  editing removing credentials in the Manage Windows Credentials work and does the job  However  you need to do this each time when the password changes or credentials do not work for some work  Using ssh key has been extremely useful for me where I don t have to bother about these again once I m done creating a ssh-key and adding them on the server repository  github bitbucket gitlab   Generating a new ssh-key  Open Git Bash   Paste the text below  substituting in your repo s email address    ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  quot your email example com quot   When you re prompted to  quot Enter a file in which to save the key  quot  press Enter  This accepts the default file location   Then you ll be asked to type a secure passphrase  You can type a passphrase  hit enter and type the passphrase again    Or  Hit enter twice for empty passphrase   Copy this on the clipboard  clip  lt     ssh id rsa pub   And then add this key into your repo s profile  For e g  on github- gt setting- gt SSH keys - gt   paste the key that you coppied ad hit add Ref  https   help github com en enterprise 2 15 user articles generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent generating-a-new-ssh-key You re done once and for all

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Rather than escape my password I left it out and was prompted for it  but only when I included the domain name before my username   git clone https   some-dom-name firstname lastname tfs somedomain com tfs

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After trying almost everything on this thread and others  continuing to Google  the only thing that worked for me  in the end  was to start Visual Studio as my AD user via command line  cd C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Community Common7 IDE runas  netonly  user  lt comp name surname gt  devenv exe  Original issue   1   https   developercommunity visualstudio com content problem 304224 git-failed-with-a-fatal-errorauthentication-failed html My situation is I m on a personal machine connecting to a company s internal local devops server  not cloud-based  that uses AD authorization  I had no issue with TFS  but with git could not get the clone to work  Git failed with a fatal error  Authentication failed for  url   until I did that

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The culprit was russian account password   Accidentally set up it  wrong keyboard layout   Everything was working  so didnt bother changing it   Out of despair changed it now and it worked   If someone looked up this thread and its not a solution for you - check out comments under the question and steps i described in question  they might be useful to you

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Adding username and password has worked for me  For e g   https   myUserName myPassWord myGitRepositoryAddress myAuthentificationName myRepository git

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In case someone is facing this issue with Azure DevOps  there the fix is very easy  just adding Git credentials to a repository

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Go to Control Panel All Control Panel Items Credential Manager and select Generic Credentials  Remove all the credential with your company domain name  Git clone repository from git bash terminal once again and it will ask for password and username  Insert it again and you are all set

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Go to  gt  Control Panel User Accounts Credential Manager  gt  Manage Windows Credentials and remove all generic credentials involving Git  This way you re resetting all the credentials  After this  when you clone  you ll be newly and securely asked your username and password instead of Authentication error  Similar logic can be applied for Mac users  Hope it helps

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I had the same issue when Cloning the repository via Bash VS Code with  fatal Authentication failed   I used SSH Key authentication instead to connect my repository following the article   https   docs microsoft com en-us azure devops repos git use-ssh-keys-to-authenticate view azure-devops amp tabs current-page  1   I didn t get any errors after with any bash commands

[windows] git clone: Authentication failed for <URL>

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