Git s famous ERROR Permission to git denied to user

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I have tried googling and read through https   help github com en articles connecting-to-github-with-ssh and various  various guides  I am unable to git push -u origin master or git push origin master   the same command     I ve had my git account for at least 2 or so years  I ve successfully been able to create repos and push -u origin master fine on my laptop but on this desktop I m having issues   Here s what I tried   1  I have setup my git user name  2  I have setup my git user email  3  I have uploaded the contents of my  home meder  ssh id rsa pub to github s account page  I have verified I did not paste any whitespace  4  I have created a    ssh config with these contents     Host github com   User git   Hostname github com   PreferredAuthentications publickey   IdentityFile    ssh id rsa   I have chmodded the  ssh to 700  id rsa 600  5  I have added the proper remote origin without making typos   git remote add origin git github com medero cho git  6  To confirm  5  here is my  git config  The directory is correct and not another directory    remote  origin           fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin           url   git github com medero cho git   7  ssh git github com -v gives me a successful Authentication  8  One weird thing is  the username which it greets me with has t appended to it  My github username is medero  not medert      Hi mederot  You ve successfully   authenticated  but GitHub does not   provide shell access    9  I am not behind a proxy or firewall  10  The key is offered  heres the output from -v    debug1  Host  github com  is known and matches the RSA host key  debug1  Found key in  home meder  ssh known hosts 58 debug1  ssh rsa verify  signature correct debug1  SSH2 MSG NEWKEYS sent debug1  expecting SSH2 MSG NEWKEYS debug1  SSH2 MSG NEWKEYS received debug1  SSH2 MSG SERVICE REQUEST sent debug1  SSH2 MSG SERVICE ACCEPT received debug1  Authentications that can continue  publickey debug1  Next authentication method  publickey debug1  Offering public key   home meder  ssh id rsa debug1  Remote  Forced command  gerve mederot debug1  Remote  Port forwarding disabled  debug1  Remote  X11 forwarding disabled  debug1  Remote  Agent forwarding disabled  debug1  Remote  Pty allocation disabled  debug1  Server accepts key    some stuff  dont know if i should share it  debug1  Remote  Forced command  gerve mederot debug1  Remote  Port forwarding disabled  debug1  Remote  X11 forwarding disabled  debug1  Remote  Agent forwarding disabled  debug1  Remote  Pty allocation disabled  debug1  Authentication succeeded  publickey      11  Here are the commands I used  mkdir cho git init touch README git add README git commit -m  test  git remote add origin git github com medero cho git git push -u origin master   12  I don t want to create a new SSH key   13  If I git clone using ssh and make an edit  commit  and git push  I get the same exact thing   14  Here s the actual error     git push ERROR  Permission to medero cho git denied to mederot  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   15  I have setup my github username and github token     git config --global github user medero   git config --global github token 0123456789yourf0123456789tokenSets the GitHub token for all git instances on the system  16  I have confirmed my github username is NOT mederot and my github token IS CORRECT per my account page   validated first 2 chars and last 2 chars     17  To confirm  16     gitconfig contains   github      token   mytoken        user   medero   18  I did ssh-key add    ssh id rsa if that s even necessary      THEORIES   I suspect there s something fishy because when I get ssh authenticated  the user greeting is mederot and not medero  which is my acct  Could something in my github account possibly be incorrectly cached   I also suspect some local ssh caching weirdness because if i mv    ssh id rsa KAKA and mv    ssh id rsa pub POOPOO  and do ssh git github com -v  it still Authenticates me and says it serves my  home meder  ssh id rsa when I renamed it   It has to be cached

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On Mac  if you have multiple GitHub logins and are not using SSH  force the correct login by using   git remote set-url origin https   username github com username repo-name git   This also works if you re having issues pushing to a private repository

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After Googling for few days  I found this is the only question similar to my situation   However  I just solved the problem   So I am putting my answer here to help anyone else searching for this issue   Here is what I did    Open  Keychain Access app   You can find it in Spotlight or LaunchPad  Select  All items  in Category Search  git  Delete every old  amp  strange item Try to Push again and it just WORKED

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Its due to a conflict   Clear all keys from ssh-agent  ssh-add -d    ssh id rsa ssh-add -d    ssh github   Add the github ssh key  ssh-add      ssh github   It should work now

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I had the same problem as you  After a long time spent Googling  I found out my error was caused by multiple users that had added the same key in their accounts   So  here is my solution  delete the wrong-user s ssh-key  I can do it because the wrong-user is also my account   If the wrong-user isn t your account  you may need to change your ssh-key  but I don t think this gonna happen   And I think your problem may be caused by a mistyping error in your accounts name

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I recently ran into this issue for on old repo on my machine that had been pushed up using https  steps 5 and 6 solved my issue by re-setting the remote url for my repo from using the https url to the ssh url  checking the remote is using the https url   gt  git remote -v origin  https   github com ExampleUser ExampleRepo git  fetch  origin  https   github com ExampleUser ExampleRepo git  push    then re-setting the origin to use the ssh url   gt  git remote set-url origin git github com ExampleUser ExampleRepo git   verifying new remote   gt  git remote -v origin  git github com ExampleUser ExampleRepo git  fetch  origin  git github com ExampleUser ExampleRepo git  push    could now successfully git push -u origin  i m still not sure what setting i would have changed that might have caused the push to fail when the remote is https but this was the solution to my issue

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I am using Mac and the issue is solved by deleting github record from keychain access app  Here is what i did    Open  Keychain Access app   You can find it in Spotlight orLaunchPad   Select  All items  in Category  Search  git   Delete every old  amp  strange items Try to Push again and it just WORKED   Above steps are copied from  spyar for the ease

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If problem is coming on windows then remove the Credentials from the Windows history    Go to Credential Manager Go to Windows Credentials Delete the entries under Generic Credentials Try connecting again This time   it should prompt you for the correct username and password       remove credentials from git

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This problem is also caused by   If you are on a mac linux  and are using  ControlMaster  in your    ssh config  there may be some ssh control master processes running   To find them  run   ps aux   grep    mux      And kill the relevant ones

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I find the solution is the same as  spyar provide which is the Keychain Access app stored the old username   There are 2 solutions for this situation    Delete the info in Keychain Access by   Open Keychain Access app Search for github Delete corresponding credentials    Or    If you use want to use ssh key  You just change your Repo url from https      https   github com username repo git   into      git github com username repo git   Hope this helps

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I too ran into this  what caused this for me is that while cloning the repo I was pushing my changes to  I picked up the clone URL from an incognito tab without signing in   I am still clueless on how it effects   That for some reason led to git picking another user account   When i tried it again from a proper signed in page it worked like usual for me

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In step 18  I assume you mean ssh-add    ssh id rsa   If so  that explains this      I also suspect some local ssh caching weirdness because if i mv    ssh id rsa KAKA and mv    ssh id rsa pub POOPOO  and do ssh git github com -v  it still Authenticates me and says it serves my  home meder  ssh id rsa when I renamed it   It has to be cached         since the ssh-agent is caching your key   If you look on GitHub  there is a mederot account   Are you sure that this is nothing to do with you   GitHub shouldn t allow the same SSH public key to be added to two accounts  since when you are using the git github com     URLs it s identifying the user based on the SSH key    That this shouldn t be allowed is confirmed here    So  I suspect  in decreasing order of likelihood  that one of the following is the case    You created the mederot account previously and added your SSH key to it  Someone else has obtained a copy of your public key and added it to the mederot GitHub account  There s a horrible bug in GitHub    If 1 isn t the case then I would report this to GitHub  so they can check about 2 or 3   More    ssh-add -l check if there is more than one identify exists if yes  remove it by ssh-add -d  that key file

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I encountered this error when using Travis CI to deploy content  which involved pushing edits to a repository     I eventually solved the issue by updating the GitHub personal access token associated with the Travis account with the public repo scope access permission

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