I started using Visual Studio Code, and I was trying to save my test project into GitHub, but Visual Studio Code is always asking for my GitHub credentials.
I have installed in my PC GitHub Desktop and also Git, I already ran:
git config --global credential.helper wincred
but still Visual Studio Code is asking for the credentials.
Any help?
here is my .gitconfig file located in the user profile folfer:
[filter "lfs"]
clean = git-lfs clean %f
smudge = git-lfs smudge %f
required = true
[user]
name = ddieppa
[user]
email = [email protected]
[credential]
helper = wincred
Here is the popup windows asking for the credentials:
I enter my GitHub credentials in the popup, but still getting this error in the Git output window in Visual Studio Code:
remote: Anonymous access to ddieppa/LineOfBizApp.git denied.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/ddieppa/LineOfBizApp.git/'
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All I had to do was to run this command:
git config --global credential.helper wincred
Then I was prompted for password twice.
Next time it worked without prompting me for password.
This has been working for me:
1. Set credential hepler to store
$ git config --global credential.helper store
2. then verify if you want:
$ git config --global credential.helper
store
Simple example when using git bash quoted from Here (works for current repo only, use --global
for all repos)
$ git config credential.helper store
$ git push http://example.com/repo.git
Username: < type your username >
Password: < type your password >
[several days later]
$ git push http://example.com/repo.git
[your credentials are used automatically]
Will work for VS Code too.
More detailed example and advanced usage here.
Note: Username & Passwords are not encrypted and stored in plain text format so use it on your personal computer only.
apart from adding the ssh config entries above
if windows
Set-Service ssh-agent -StartupType Automatic
in powershell now the vs code should not prompt...
Use ssh instead of http/https.
You will need to set ssh keys on your local machine, upload them to your git server and replace the url form http://
to git://
and you will not need to use passwords anymore.
If you cant use ssh add this to your config:
[credential "https://example.com"]
username = me
documents are here.
Simply follow those steps and you will set up your ssh key in no time:
Generate a new ssh key (or skip this step if you already have a key)
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your@email"
Once you have your key set in home/.ssh
directory (or Users/<your user>.ssh
under windows), open it and copy the content
SSH keys
Add ssh key
And you all set to go :-)
The following steps walk you through how to:
**Generating SSH keys without a passphrase is unwise if your work is particularly sensitive.
OS - Fedora 28 | Editor - VS Code v1.23.0 | Repository - Git
Generate SSH keys:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
After completing the above steps, the location of your public key is shown in the terminal window. If the currently logged in user is 'bob' the location of your public key would be /home/bob/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Copy and import public key to GitHub:
cat /home/bob/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Copy the whole public key that is now displayed in your terminal window to the clipboard
Confirm the above steps:
ssh -T [email protected]
yes
Hi ! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
First commit / push without having to enter a username / password:
- touch test.txt
git add test.txt
git commit
- opens editor, enter a message and save the file. If vi is your editor, press i
once the file opens, enter a message, press esc, and then enter :x
to save changes.
git push
The only hiccup you may encounter is when you attempt to SSH to GitHub. This link will provide some assistance -
Happy hunting!
I had a similar problem in Visual Studio Code.
I solved by changing the remote url to https. (in file .git/config)
[remote "origin"]
url = https://[email protected]/plesk-git/project.git
and also
git config --global credential.helper wincred
pulled again, windows credential popup came out, problems solved.
For windows 10 : go to control panel/Credential manager/ Windows Credential--> click on the git link, --> edit--> update to new password. That should work
for windows 10 press windows key type cred and you should see "Credential Manager" in Control Panel click to open and then remove the related cached credentials then try again, it will ask user id password key in the correct password and you'll be good.
Happened with me when I changed my network password
I managed to stop this by carrying out the following steps.
cd "C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core"
followed by git-credential-manager.exe uninstall
git config --global credential.helper wincred
NOTE: I was using a Personal Access Token as my password.
Try installing "Git Credential Manager For Windows" (and following instructions for setting up the credential manager).
When required within an app using Git (e.g. VS Code) it will "magically" open the required dialog for Visual Studio Team Services credential input.
I usually run this simple command to change the git remote url from https to ssh
git remote set-url origin [email protected]:username/repo-name-here.git
After 98 upvotes, I think I need to give a true answer with the explanation.
Why does VS code ask for a password? Because VSCode runs the auto-fetch feature, while git server doesn't have any information to authorize your identity. It happens when:
https
remote url. Yes! This kind of remote will absolutely ask you every time. No exceptions here! (You can do a temporary trick to cache the authorization as the solution below, but this is not recommended.)ssl
remote url, BUT you've not copied your ssh public key onto git server. Use ssh-keygen
to generate your key and copy it to git server. Done! This solution also helps you never retype password on terminal again. See a good instruction by @Fnatical here for the answer.The updated part at the end of this answer doesn't really help you at all. (It actually makes you stagnant in your workflow.) It only stops things happening in VSCode and moves these happenings to the terminal.
Sorry if this bad answer has affected you for a long, long time.
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I found the solution on VSCode document:
Tip: You should set up a credential helper to avoid getting asked for credentials every time VS Code talks to your Git remotes. If you don't do this, you may want to consider Disabling Autofetch in the ... menu to reduce the number of prompts you get.
So, turn on the credential helper so that Git will save your password in memory for some time. By default, Git will cache your password for 15 minutes.
In Terminal, enter the following:
git config --global credential.helper cache
# Set git to use the credential memory cache
To change the default password cache timeout, enter the following:
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
# Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour (setting is in seconds)
I installed VS Code and config same above, but as @ddieppa said, It didn't work for me too. So I tried to find an option in User Setting, and I saw "git.autofetch" = true, now set it's false! VS Code is no longer required to enter password repeatedly again!
In menu, click File / Preferences / User Setting And type these:
Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{
"git.autofetch": false
}
Use an SSH key without a passphrase.
Maybe this is obvious to some (wasn't to me). It also doesn't solve the issue if you absolutely require a passphrase, but this was a decent compromise in my situation on Mac.
In general, you can use the built-in credential storage facilities:
git config --global credential.helper store
Or, if you're on Windows, you can use their credential system:
git config --global credential.helper wincred
Or, if you're on MacOS, you can use their credential system:
git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain
The first solution is optimal in most situations.
Following that article:
You may just set GIT_SSH env. var. to the Putty's plink.exe program. (Then use the pageant.exe as a auth. agent)
For me I had setup my remote repo with an SSH key but git could not find them because the HOMEDRIVE environment variable was automatically getting set to a network share due to my company's domain policy. Changing that environment variable in my shell prior to launching code .
caused VSCode to inherit the correct environment variable and viola no more connection errors in the git output window.
Now I just have to figure out how to override the domain policy so HOMEDRIVE is always pointing to my local c:\users\marvhen
directory which is the default location for the .ssh
directory.
You should be able to set your credentials like this:
git remote set-url origin https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@bitbucket.org/path/to/repo.git
You can get the remote url like this:
git config --get remote.origin.url
You can refer this link for setup a Git Credential
You can run the following command to save your git credentials. You no need to enter username and password every git command run. (Its for Windows)
git config --global credential.helper wincred
For Mac / Linux click on this link for How to save Git credentials
I solved a similar problem in a simple way:
git pull origin master
. Replace 'origin' with your Remote nameThat's all. I Solved the problem
In case you are on Windows PC Then answer you are looking for!
Install Git for Windows
That's it!
After fighting with something like this for a little while, I think I came up with a good solution, especially when having multiple accounts across both GitHub and BitBucket. However for VSCode, it ultimately ended up as start it from a Git Bash terminal so that it inherited the environment variables from the bash session and it knew which ssh-agent to look at.
I realise this is an old post but I still really struggled to find one place to get the info I needed. Plus since 2017, ssh-agent got the ability to prompt you for a passphrase only when you try to access a repo.
I put my findings down here if anyone is interested:
Automatic Git authentication. From the v1.45 Release Notes:
GitHub authentication for GitHub Repositories
VS Code now has automatic GitHub authentication against GitHub repositories. You can now clone, pull, push to and from public and private repositories without configuring any credential manager in your system. Even Git commands invoked in the Integrated Terminal, for example git push, are now automatically authenticated against your GitHub account.
You can disable GitHub authentication with the
git.githubAuthentication
setting. You can also disable the terminal authentication integration with thegit.terminalAuthentication
setting.
Solve the issue by following steps.
Uninstalled softwares Vscode and git and reinstalled the same. Changed the git repository clone url from ssh to https.
Source: Stackoverflow.com