How do I check my github settings or who I'm signed in as on my current project through the terminal?

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My friend set up my github for me and cloned a project onto my desktop. I want to see what is my profile name on the Github account he gave me. Is there a command to do that?

score 50 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '16 at 19:05

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You can see the current configurations, including username, with git config -l.

You'll want to look for user.name, user.email, and github.user.

You can unset configurations using --unset, like git config user.name --unset.

You can also reset configurations using git config user.name "Your Name".

answered May 23 '16 at 19:05

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I see credential.helper=osxkeychain when I use git config -l. how do I go on from here to see my username? – akantoword May 26 '16 at 23:51
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I followed this but didn't find github.com anywhere – akantoword May 26 '16 at 23:53
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I accessed with a token, but I can't see any information here – Christian Vincenzo Traina Feb 19 '21 at 21:42

score 29 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '20 at 06:32

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To see which user is accessing github via terminal you could try SSH

ssh -T git@github.com

You get the following response

Hi Keshavdulal! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

I have multiple ssh keys setup for different projects and it helps to know the current user.

answered Dec 16 '20 at 06:32

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That's helpful and how do you change the user? – Houman Jun 04 '21 at 07:24
https://stackoverflow.com/a/51997218/3556531 @Houman This should help. – KeshavDulal Jun 18 '21 at 11:12

Gaurav · Answer 3 · 2020-11-06T04:39:51.287

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git config -l | grep user.name

This will only output username in the terminal. Similarly, for email type:

git config -l | grep user.email

Note: This will only work on mac. For windows, refer to the comments.

edited Nov 06 '20 at 04:39

answered May 02 '20 at 20:03

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it says: 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. what's wrong? – eqrakhattak Oct 12 '20 at 07:41
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on a Windows system you can use `findstr` instead of `grep` – yoyo Oct 28 '20 at 17:02

score 7 · Answer 4 · edited May 15 '22 at 15:29

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you can check your project git config using:

git config -l

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answered Dec 22 '21 at 11:45

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered May 23 '16 at 19:11

To add to Briana's response; use '--global' to modify the .gitconfig file and permanently change your user name. Without '--global' you would only be changing your user name for that session.

i.e.

git config --global user.name "your.user.name"

would save your user name so that you login as "your.user.name" when git starts up.

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered May 23 '16 at 19:20

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You can use git remote -v to list the remote repositories linked to your local clone.

You'll see GitHub repository URL which contains your GitHub user name in the middle.

Note that your GitHub user name might be different than your local username and email, which are not validated by any means (you can put whatever you want in those configuration settings).

answered May 23 '16 at 19:20

jakub.g

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This doesn't work on any repo that isn't yours (e.g. /) – Urchin Apr 17 '22 at 16:05

How do I check my github settings or who I'm signed in as on my current project through the terminal?

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