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I am new to GitHub and have been in the process of uploading old projects to it.

Unfortunately, I have started to encounter this error whenever I want to publish more projects. 

Requires authentication

This error persists even on my laptop.

If someone could help me out, that would be great.

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Mountain Man
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Make sure you have followed first the Authenticating to GitHub guide: the client "GitHub Desktop" needs to know under which account it will create/push that new repository.

If it does not, then the error message would pop up.

VonC
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    Thank you! It looks like I needed to log off and back in. This was probably because I changed my GitHub name. – Mountain Man Mar 26 '18 at 19:04
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    @Longurimont Check also your credential helper, in case it has cached the wrong credentials: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47466980/6309 – VonC Mar 26 '18 at 19:16