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I'm working on a project with a teammate and he created a GitHub repo to make version control easier. In the past, I've worked with Bitbucket repos, and it was farily easy to set-up. I just used my Bitbucket username and password as credentials and that was it. For GitHub, I managed to set up the repo correctly and can pull from it, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to push. I tried every possible username/password combination and I either get a git-receive pack not permitted, or a Auth failed error. What am I missing here? What credentials do I have to use to be able to push? I'm using eGit

everton
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Nihilish
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  • Are you using two-factor authentication? –  Oct 28 '17 at 03:31
  • @Caleb_McCreary I'm not. – Nihilish Oct 28 '17 at 03:33
  • Would you mind posting a photo of your complete process here? Obviously, do not show any sensitive information. –  Oct 28 '17 at 03:34
  • Quite simply, I'm right clicking on my remotes, selecting ''change credentials'' and here I've tried putting my GitHub username/password, my userID/password, my GitHub email/password, Git and blank password, and then I try to push my commits and I get error messages, no matter what. – Nihilish Oct 28 '17 at 03:43
  • Well, your github username/password are the ones you would use for authentication, for sure. I've never had an issue where I needed to manually edit my credentials. Typically, if you push from the command line, as long as your repo is linked correctly, it should prompt you to sign in. –  Oct 28 '17 at 03:45
  • I'm not pushing from the command line though, I'm pushing directly from Eclipse using eGit. Is it possible that the person who created the GitHub repo has to give me some kind of write access or something? – Nihilish Oct 28 '17 at 03:48

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It depends on your OS (Windows? Mac? Linux?) and on the URL used.

For instance, for https URL, Git for Windows would cache credentials in the Windows Credential Manager

For SSH URL, changing credentials would not work at all, since it relies on public/private SSH KEYS in your %HOME%(or $HOME)/.ssh.

Both apply even from Eclipse.

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