GitHub invalid username or password

Question

I have a project hosted on GitHub  I fail when trying to push my modifications on the master  I always get the following error message  Password for  https   git github com    remote  Invalid username or password  fatal  Authentication failed for  https   git github com eurydyce MDANSE git     However  setting my ssh key to github seems ok  Indeed  when I do a ssh -T git github com I get  Hi eurydyce  You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access    Which seems to indicate that everything is OK from that side  eurydyce being my github username   I strictly followed the instructions given on github and the recommendations of many stack discussion but no way  Would you have any idea of what I may have done wrong

User · Answer

After enabling Two Factor Authentication (2FA), you may see something like this when attempting to use git clone, git fetch, git pull or git push:

$ git push origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': your_user_name
Password for 'https://[email protected]': 
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/your_user_name/repo_name.git/'

Why this is happening

From the GitHub Help documentation:

After 2FA is enabled you will need to enter a personal access token instead of a 2FA code and your GitHub password.

...

For example, when you access a repository using Git on the command line using commands like git clone, git fetch, git pull or git push with HTTPS URLs, you must provide your GitHub username and your personal access token when prompted for a username and password. The command line prompt won't specify that you should enter your personal access token when it asks for your password.

How to fix it

Generate a Personal Access Token. (Detailed guide on Creating a personal access token for the command line.)
Copy the Personal Access Token.
Re-attempt the command you were trying and use Personal Access Token in the place of your password.

Related question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21374369/101662

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I am getting this while cloning app from bitbucket   Cloning into  YourAppName     Password for  https   youruser id    remote  Invalid username or password   I solved it  Here you need to create password for your userid   Click on Your profile and settings      Then Create app password choose your name password will generated  paste that password to terminal

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I did    git pull origin master   Then it asked for the  Username   amp   Password  and it seems to be working fine now

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You might be getting this error because you have updated your password  So on Terminal first make sure you clear your GitHub credentials from the keychain and then push your changes to your repo  terminal will ask for your username and password

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In case you get this error message in this situation    using github for entreprise using credential helper wincred in git config using your windows credentials which you changed recently   Then look at this answer  https   stackoverflow com a 39608906 521257  Windows stores credentials in a credentials manager  clear it or update it

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I had the same issue  And I solved it by changing the remote branch s path from https   github com YourName RepoName to git github com YourName RepoName git in the repo s settings of the client app

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Instead of git pull also try git pull origin master  I changed password  and the first command gave error     git pull remote  Invalid username or password  fatal  Authentication failed for       After git pull origin master  it asked for password and seemed to update itself

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Control panel Credential manager Look for options webcredentials and windows credentials in either one you will find github credentials fix it with correct credentials open new instance of git bash you should be able to perform your git commands    This worked for me  I was able to pull and push into my remote repo

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If like me you just updated your password and ran git push to run into this issue  then there s a super easy fix    For Mac users only  You need to delete your OSX Keychain access entries for GitHub  You can do it via terminal by running the following commands   Deleting your credentials via the command line  Through the command line  you can use the credential helper directly to erase the keychain entry   To do this  type the following command   git credential-osxkeychain erase host github com protocol https     Now Press Return    If it s successful  nothing will print out  To test that it works  try and clone a repository from GitHub or run your previous action again like in my case git push  If you are prompted for a password  the keychain entry was deleted

User · Answer

There is a issue on Windows using cmd-Greetings There is a issue on Windows using cmd-Greetings who will not let you clone private repositories  Remove that cmd-greeting described in this documentation  keyword Command Processor   Known-Issues I can confirm that other clients like SourceTree  GitKraken  Tower and TortoiseGit affected to this issue too

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https   git github com eurydyce MDANSE git is not an ssh url  it is an https one  which would require your GitHub account name  instead of  git     Try to use ssh   git github com eurydyce MDANSE git or just git github com eurydyce MDANSE git  git remote set-url origin git github com eurydyce MDANSE git   The OP Pellegrini Eric adds      That s what I did in my    gitconfig file that contains currently the following entries  remote  origin   url git github com eurydyce MDANSE git    This should not be in your global config  the one in      You could check git config -l in your repo  that url should be declared in the local config   lt yourrepo gt   git config   So make sure you are in the repo path when doing the git remote set-url command     As noted in Oliver s answer  an HTTPS URL would not use username password if two-factor authentication  2FA  is activated   In that case  the password should be a PAT  personal access token  as seen in  Using a token on the command line    That applies only for HTTPS URLS  SSH is not affected by this limitation

User · Answer

just try to push it to your branch again  This will ask your username and password again  so you can feed in the changed password  So that your new password will be stored again in the cache

User · Answer

No need to rely on Generating a Personal Access Token and then trying and use Personal Access Token in the place of your password   Quick fix is to set your remote URL to point to ssh not https   Do this git remote set-url origin git github com username repository

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I m constantly running into this problem  Make sure you set git --config user name    and not your real name  which I ve done a few times

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That problem happens sometimes due to wrong password  Please check if you are linked with AD password  Active Directory Password  and you recently changed you AD password but still trying git command with old password or not  Update old AD password Control Panel  gt  Credential Manager  gt  Windows Credential  gt  change github password with my new AD password

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Disabling 2 factor authentication at github worked for me   I see that there is a deleted answer that says this  with the deletion reason as  does not answer the question     If it works  then I think it answers the question

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Solution steps    Control Panel Credential Manager Click Window Credentials In Generic  Credential section  there would be git url  update username and password Restart Git Bash and try for clone

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I have got the success using the following commands  git config --unset-all credential helper git config --global --unset-all credential helper git config --system --unset-all credential helper  Try and let me know if these are working for you

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Just Try this    git remote set-url origin git github com username repository  Hope this help

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When using the https    URL to connect to your remote repository  then Git will not use SSH as authentication but will instead try a basic authentication over HTTPS  Usually  you would just use the URL without a username  e g  https   github com username repository git  and Git would then prompt you to enter both a username  your GitHub username  and your password   If you use https   something github com username repository git  then you have preset the username Git will use for authentication  something  Since you used https   git github com  Git will try to log in using the git username for which your password of course doesn   t work  So you will have to use your username instead   The alternative is actually to use SSH for authentication  That way you will avoid having to type your password all the time  and since it already seems to work  that   s what you should be using   To do that  you need to change your remote URL though  so Git knows that it needs to connect via SSH  The format is then this  git github com username repository  To update your URL use this command   git remote set-url origin git github com username repository

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If you have just enabled 2FA   Modify hidden config file in   git hidden folder as follow    remote  quot origin quot       url   https   username PUT YOUR 2FA TOKEN HERE github com project project git

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I just disable the Two-factor authentication and try again  It works for me

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Since you probably want to keep 2FA enabled for your account  you can set up a ssh key and that way you won t need to type your Github credentials every time you want to push work to Github    You can find all the ssh setup steps in the documentation  First  make sure you don t currently have any ssh keys  id rsa pub  etc   with   ls -al    ssh

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This solution worked for me    open Control Panel Go to Credential Manager Click Window Credentials In Generic Credential section  there would be git url  update username and password Restart Git Bash and try for clone

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