Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

Question

I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated. I\'ve made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server. Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.

Answer 1

Same error and resolution on Mac OS X.

Everything was working fine till I created a new account on GitHub and tried to push

$ git push -u origin master

And got the error:

remote: Permission to NEWUSER/NEWREPO.git denied to OLDUSER. fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/NEWUSER/NEWREPO.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

It should have fixed by setting the user.name either for global or current repo

$ git config –-global user.name NEWUSER
$ git config user.name NEWUSER

But it didn’t.

I got it fixed by deleting the OLDUSER associated with GitHub from Keychain Access app under Passwords section. Then the push command went successful.

$ git push -u origin master

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