403 when pushing to Github (using https)

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Git/Github does not ask me for username/password at the command line, when I was hoping that it would! Notice that this is the opposite question of "why is git/Github asking for my username/password"?

Here is the sequence:

$ git push
remote: Permission to userEFGH/cagor.git denied to userABCD.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/userEFGH/cagor.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

So apparently I am logged in as the wrong user? I don't have any ssh keys configured on this machine, so why wouldn't git/Github then give me an opportunity to use username/password?

As you can see, git/Github thinks I am userABCD. I am trying to push to a repo owned by userEFGH.

But why does git/Github think I am userABCD, when I don't have any ssh keys on this machine? I have also never run git config --global x, TMK.

Just as an aside, I have two Github accounts, one is for userABCD and the other is userEFGH.

Kevin · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-21 20:24:15Z

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It's possible that git's configurations on your machine thinks that you're userABCD, to check this use the command git config --list this will show what user.name and user.email you're using. If userABCD is shown then you can change it with git config user.email [email protected], if you want this globally changed (meaning git in general and not just in your local repo) use git config --global user.email [email protected] Hope this helps you and/or others

answered Feb 21, 2017 at 20:24

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