Unable to change Git account

Question

I tried to push to my repository, but I got the error below:

git push origin master
remote: Permission to PhanVanLinh/phanvanlinh.github.io.git denied to edgarphan.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/PhanVanLinh/phanvanlinh.github.io.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Before, I was using username edgarphan, but I have already changed it to PhanVanLinh, but it still keeps edgarphan.

I have tried to delete the project and clone again, uninstall Git and reinstall, but it won't work.

Global configuration file

How can I fix this issue?

Solution 1

This has nothing to do with your user.name/user.email settings: those are for authorship in a commit. They are not used for authentication when you push to a repo.

If Git does not ask you for your GitHub (new) username/password, that means Git for Windows is using a Git credential helper called "manager" (do a git config credential.helper to confirm it)

Meaning: it is caching your old credentials and is reusing them automatically.

In that case, go to the Windows start menu (), type "credential" and select the Windows tool "Windows Credential Manager".

In it, you will find an entry git.https://github.com, which you can edit, and where you can enter your new GitHub username/password.

Then try and push again.

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With more recent Git version (2.32+, Q2 2021), assuming <C:\path\to\git>\usr\bin and <C:\path\to\git>\mingw64\libexec\git-core are in your %PATH%, you can do the same removal in command-line:

printf "protocol=https\nhost=github.com\nusername=xxx"| git-credential-manager-core erase

Solution 2

I had the same issue where I had not set up the username and password for git and the following solved my issue.

Note: If you have Enable Two factor authentication for GitHub disable it for a while

• Step 01

Goto Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Credential Manager -> Windows Credentials

• Step 02

Goto Generic Credentials section -> Add a generic credential

• Step 03 - Fill the fields

Internet or network address : git.https://github.com
User name                   : your github username
Password                    : your github username

And now click on Ok. This will solve the problem of failing to push the repository

Comments

[LogicalAnt]

what about git config --global user.name

[Linh]

@unreleased git config --global user.name is PhanVanLinh too

[Vinay Prajapati]

your images are not shown

[Linh]

I tried and I received same error like my question.

[VonC]

@SeakyLone Than please ask a separate question with more details on your current setup. For instance, if your remote URL is an SSH one instead of an HTTPS one, you would not see anything in the credential manager indeed (since it deals with credentials for HTTPS queries only)