git pushes with wrong user from terminal

Question

I have an issue with git and my terminal.

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When I push commits from my terminal, git says I

Answer 1

Despite all the great options given by other users, the only way to fix this was to reinstall git completely and type git config --global push.default simple to rewrite good credentials.

Answer 2

What a pain in the butt!

problem:

1. create a repo on git hub
2. clone to local machine
3. can not push 403.

turns for unknow reason git push was using the wrong user. I have a couple of different git hub user ids. I work for 2 different companies and also have a student id

I am working on a mac. here is what I finally did

1) remove the credential.helper

• some how the credential helper got set to osxkeychain
• when I started keychain, click on login, passwords and searched for github I found 3 entries. I have no idea how keychain could possible know which one to use

a. you need to figure out where the credential.helper is configured

git config --local credential.helper
git config --global credential.helper
git config --system credential.helper

b. once find the correct fig file remove it as follows

git config --global --unset credential.helper

Now in my local repo I hacked the .git/config file

I changed

    url = https://github.com/aedavids/lab3RotationProject.git

to

    url = https://myGitHubUserId@github.com/aedavids/lab3RotationProject.git

Answer 3

That's what worked for me:

1. Changing the credentials inside .git-credentials
2. Changing the global user.name and user.email inside .gitconfig

Answer 4

I'm using Windows 10 and I faced the same issue today. In my case my credentials for different user were saved by Windows Credential manager. Thus deleting/unsetting git credentials with below command, git config --global --unset credential.helper

didn't help. I had to manually delete the entry in Windows by following the below way,

Start --> Control Panel ---> User Accounts ---> Manager your credentials ---> Windows Credentials

Then search for an entry like, git:https://github.com and remove it. It works fine after that.

Answer 5

First Go to this path in Windows
Start --> Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Manager your credentials --> Windows Credentials

And Remove the credential from git:https://github.com

Then add your GitHub account username and password from which you want to push the code at the same place.

To check whether git will push from the username that you added now enter the following command in git bash.

git config user.name

This will show you the username from which the git will push. If the username is correct then your problem is solved.

For me this didn't solve the problem it was still showing my previous account username that I removed.

Now enter the username and email Id of the account from which you want to push in the following command in git bash.

git config --global user.name your_username
git config --global user.email your_emaiid

This will now change the user.
Before pushing any code you can verify whether the user is changed or not by again using the following command.

git config user.name

Answer 6

A temporary solution is first run killall ssh-agent then add the ssh keys generated for the account you need to use ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_4shameer

It will help us to work on multiple github account when we will get the error of type ERROR: Permission to user/repo-git.git denied to username.