I have the following problem when I try to pull code using git Bash on Windows:
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such file or directory
I already tried to implement the accepted solution provided here:
However the problem still persists.
After adding/removing origin I still get the same error.
Could advise on this issue?
Thanks!
Follow the steps to setup SSH keys here: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys
OR
git remote add origin https://{username}:{password}@github.com/{username}/project.git
Update: If you get "fatal: remote origin already exists." then you have to use set-url:
git remote set-url origin https://{username}:{password}@github.com/{username}/project.git
I faced the exact same problem. This problem occurred when I cloned a repo using HTTPS URL and then tried to push the changes (using Shell on Linux/Mac or Git Bash on Windows):
git clone https://github.com/{username}/{repo}.git
However, when I used SSH URL to clone, this problem didn't occur:
git clone git@github.com:{username}/{repo}.git
In case you already cloned the repo using HTTPS and don't want to redo everything, you may use set-url to change the origin URL to SSH URL:
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:{username}/{repo}.git
Note: I have SSH key added to my GitHub account. Without setting up SSH key, this method will not work either.
BTW,
git cloneorpullshould work without any of these changes. These are needed only when yougit pushafterclone.
I found my answer here:
edit ~/.gitconfig and add the following:
[url "git@github.com:"]
insteadOf = https://github.com/
Although it solves a different problem, the error code is the same...
just check the below
Android Studio -> Preferences -> Version Control -> Git -> Use Credential Helper
For me nothing worked from suggested above, I use the git pull command from Jenkins Shell Script and apparently it takes wrong user name. I spent ages before I found a way to fix it without switching to SSH.
In your the user's folder create .gitconfig file (if you don't have it already) and put your credentials in following format: https://user:pass@example.com, more info. After your .gitconfig file link to those credentials, in my case it was:
[credential]
helper = store --file /Users/admin/.git-credentials
Now git will always use those credentials no matter what. I hope it will help someone, like it helped me.
If you want to continue use https instead ssh, and avoid type into your username and password for security reason.
You can also try Github OAuth token, then you can do
git config remote.origin.url 'https://{token}@github.com/{username}/{project}.git'
or
git remote add origin 'https://{token}@github.com/{username}/{project}.git'
This works for me!
Note that if you are getting this error instead:
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No error
Then you need to update your Git to version 2.16 or later.
This error can also happen when trying to clone an invalid HTTP URL. For example, this is the error I got when trying to clone a GitHub URL that was a few characters off:
$ git clone -v http://github.com/username/repo-name.git
Cloning into 'repo-name'...
Username for 'https://github.com':
Password for 'https://github.com':
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/username/repo-name.git/'
It actually happened inside Emacs, though, so the error in Emacs looked like this:
fatal: could not read Username for ’https://github.com’: No such device or address
So instead of a helpful error saying that there was no such repo at that URL, it gave me that, sending me on a wild goose chase until I finally realized that the URL was incorrect.
This is with git version 2.7.4.
I'm posting this here because it happened to me a month ago and again just now, sending me on the same wild goose chase again. >:(
TL;DR: check if you can read/write to /dev/tty. If no and you have used su to open the shell, check if you have used it correctly.
I was facing the same problem but on Linux and I have found the issue. I don't have my credentials stored so I always input them on prompt:
Username for 'https://github.com': foo
Password for 'https://foo@github.com':
The way how git handles http(s) connections is using /usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-https
you can see strace here:
stat("/usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-https", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1366784, ...}) = 0
pipe([9, 10]) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=NULL, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f65398bb350) = 18177
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
close(10) = 0
read(9, "", 8) = 0
close(9) = 0
close(5) = 0
close(8) = 0
dup(7) = 5
fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
write(6, "capabilities\n", 13) = 13
fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(5, "fetch\noption\npush\ncheck-connecti"..., 4096) = 38
write(6, "option progress true\n", 21) = 21
read(5, "ok\n", 4096) = 3
write(6, "option verbosity 1\n", 19) = 19
read(5, "ok\n", 4096) = 3
stat(".git/packed-refs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=675, ...}) = 0
lstat(".git/objects/10/52401742a2e9a3e8bf068b115c3818180bf19e", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=179, ...}) = 0
lstat(".git/objects/4e/35fa16cf8f2676600f56e9ba78cf730adc706e", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=178, ...}) = 0
dup(7) = 8
fcntl(8, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
close(8) = 0
write(6, "list for-push\n", 14) = 14
read(5, fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
"", 4096) = 0
--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=18177, si_uid=1000, si_status=128, si_utime=6, si_stime=2} ---
exit_group(128) = ?
+++ exited with 128 +++
So I tried to call it directly:
echo "list for-push" | strace /usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-https my
and the result:
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN|POLLRDNORM}])
recvfrom(3, "\27\3\3\1\32", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5
recvfrom(3, "\307|4Q\21\306\334\244o\237-\230\255\336\25\215D\257\227\274\r\330\314U\5\17\217T\274\262M\223"..., 282, 0, NULL, NULL) = 282
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/tty", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2995, ...}) = 0
read(4, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2995
read(4, "", 4096) = 0
close(4) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "fatal: could not read Username f"..., 83fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
) = 83
exit_group(128) = ?
+++ exited with 128 +++
And here it came to me:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/tty", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
...
write(2, "fatal: could not read Username f"..., 83fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
) = 83
git-remote-https tries to read credentials via /dev/tty so I tested if it works:
$ echo ahoj > /dev/tty
bash: /dev/tty: No such device or address
But in another terminal:
# echo ahoj > /dev/tty
ahoj
I knew I switched to this user using su so I exited the shell to see how and found out I used command su danman - so I tested it again:
~# su danman -
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
/root$ echo ahoj > /dev/tty
bash: /dev/tty: No such device or address
I probably ignored the message and continued working but this was the reason.
When I switched using the correct su - danman everything worked fine:
~# su - danman
danman@speedy:~$ echo ahoj > /dev/tty
ahoj
After this, git started working correctly
Tried everything here, didn't work.
However, when I tried to debug via git config --system --list, I got fatal: unable to read config file '/etc/gitconfig': No such file or directory.
So I did the following,
sudo ln -s $HOME/.gitconfig /etc/gitconfig
and voila, it works.
Here is the simple trick that can work
android studio -> settings -> version control -> git -> use credential helper
have fun
Short Answer:
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/{USER_NAME}/{REPOSITORY_NAME}.git
git push --set-upstream origin master
Ignore first three lines if it's not a new repository.
Longer description:
Just had the same problem, as non of the above answers helped me, I have decided to post this solution that worked for me.
Few Notes:
As the command line toolm I used GitShell (for Windows, I use Terminal.app on Mac).
GitShell is official GitHub tool, can be downloaded from https://windows.github.com/
I fixed this by installing a newer version of Git. The version I installed is 2.10.2 from https://git-scm.com. See the last post here: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/31602800-git-fails-to-authenticate-access-to-private-repository-over-https
With newer Git Bash, the credential manager window pops up and you can enter your username and password, and it works!
Replace your remote url like this:
git remote set-url origin https://<username>@github.com/<username>/<repo>.git
[SSH] executing...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
[SSH] completed
[SSH] exit-status: 1
Build step 'Execute shell script on remote host using ssh' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE
Sol:- If the repository is private and also it belongs to another person or organisation and you are a contributor of that repository then you can run git commands from Jenkins job and it doesn't prompt you for the username and password.
https://username:token@github.com/accountname/reponame.git
This is an issue with your stored credentials in the system credential cache. You probably have the config variable 'credential.helper' set to either wincred or winstore and it is failing to clear it. If you start the Control Panel and launch the Credential Manager applet then look for items in the generic credentials section labelled git:https://github.com. If you delete these, then the will be recreated next time but the credential helper utility will ask you for your new credentials.
I am using GitHub actions where the jobs are configured to accomplish a task. This solution applies to all the CIs (Jenkins, Travis, Circle) where the git command execution environment changes.
job1:
Checkout the repository using the github actions actions/checkout@v2 using the personal access token(PAT), The job completed successfully and repository is cloned.
job2:
Fetch the tags using the command git fetch --tags. The job failed with the same error
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such file or directory
Reason of failure: When the job changed, the command running environment also changed, even though the repository exists but the github credentials needs to be provided to fetch the tags.
Solution: add this command before fetching the tags in the job2
git config remote.origin.url 'https://${{ your_personal_access_token }}@github.com/${{ github.repository }}'
Note: ${{ expression }} is the github actions yaml syntex to uncover the environment varibales/ to run expressions.
I also had the same issue of connecting to my account to a private GitLab repository. I found the solution in this very Stack Overflow page but still having doubts. Posting this image illustrating what needs to be done.
Earlier when I wasn't granted permission to access the repo, I had also added the SSH pubkey to gitlab. At the point I could access the repo and run go mod vendor, the same problem as your happens. (maybe because of cache)
go mod vendor
go: errors parsing go.mod:
/Users/macos/Documents/sample/go.mod:22: git ls-remote -q https://git.aaa.team/core/some_repo.git in /Users/macos/go/pkg/mod/cache/vcs/a94d20a18fd56245f5d0f9f1601688930cad7046e55dd453b82e959b12d78369: exit status 128:
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://git.aaa.team': terminal prompts disabled
After a while trying, I decide to remove the SSH key and terminal prompts filling in username and password. Everything is fine then!
Double check the repository URL, Github will prompt you to login if the repo doesn't exist.
I'm guessing this is probably to check if it's a private repo you have access to. Possibly to make it harder to enumerate private repos. But this is all conjecture. /shrug
I had this problem in a ssh jail (jailkit), where /dev/tty was not present. I added this device file with jk_cp and the error went away.
I got the answer by clearing Invalidate caches and then clean build helped me.
Here is the simple cause for people who get this error: you are trying to pull from a repo you haven't yet set up your local git to access. For me, I got this error when I changed a public repo to a private one. It's clear to me now that a public repo needs no auth, yet a private one does.
Hope this helps clarify why the error occurs and one potential trigger for that cause.
This solved my problem i ran
git config --global --unset credential.helper
Try using an SSH connection instead of HTTPS. Set up SSH authentication for your GitHub account and update the repository URL in your deployment script to use the SSH format (git@github.com:/.git). This eliminates the need for username and password authentication.
Issue: Git Pull/Push gets stuck when using SSH authentication.
Analysis:
Running ssh -vT git@github.com reveals a hang:
(base) ➜ .ssh ssh -vT git@github.com
OpenSSH_7.6p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.5, OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.255.112] port 81.
Running ssh -vT -p 22 git@github.com shows that the connection can be made.
Checking /etc/ssh/ssh_config reveals that the connection port is set to 81.
Solution:
Edit ~/.ssh/config, and write:
Host github.com
Port 22
From the Android Studio terminal execute git pull
example: test@test:~/StudioProjects/dummy-project-android$ git pull
Add the user name
example: test@test:~/StudioProjects/dummy-project-android$ "username"
Add the user password
Password for 'https://dummy-project-android@git.com':"password"
After that, we can perform the rest of the operation
If your repo is private then
Instead of this format
https://github.com/username/<project_name>.git
Use this format
git@github.username/<project_name>.git
You can get a correct url under SSH option
Go To Your Github Repo -> Click on Code -> Select SSH -> Copy your repo URL
Hope this helps.
What worked for me is to change the access of the Git repository from private to public.
