Visual Studio Code and git : Permission denied to X

Question

I have 2 github account X (professional one) and Y (personal one).

On my personal computed, I used both account, with Visual Code.

But now, when I try to push some changes to my repository, I have a message :

Permission to Y/repo.git denied to X.

It's a duplicate of this, but the answer there are not working for me.

I tried :

git config --global user.email "email@example.com"

Didn't work. I tried without --global, didn't work.

I also saw this answer, but I have no idea how to 'un-blacklist' a file. Anyway I can't even find my .gitconfig.

I'm loosing patience and hope, if anyone has a solution to this, I will be very grateful for sharing !

Skip VSC for a bit. Can you access your repository with command line git? — lurker, May 28 '19 at 13:43
I was using terminal of visual code with git as command line. I tried with the window terminal, but I have the same error... — Astariul, May 29 '19 at 12:51
[This answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/40907049/9494790) solved it. Finally. — Astariul, May 29 '19 at 13:07

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '21 at 07:19

I had a similar problem. @Astariul's comment worked for me. I'll post it here for visibility. He linked to https://stackoverflow.com/a/40907049/9494790

Basically, an old Git login is being stored in Windows and needs to be deleted. Go to Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage your credentials, delete all the ones involving Git and VS Code, then restart VS Code.

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 17 '22 at 00:20

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I fixed the issue on my machine by signing out of the account I was logged into on vs-code by using the Accounts button on the left side bar. I had to go through the login process again with the trusted account.

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edited Apr 17 '22 at 00:20

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answered Apr 16 '22 at 23:30

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 06 '22 at 23:02

I just wanted to add to this for future reference.

I was experiencing the same issue. However, that was because I added the remote using the SSH git@ style URL instead of the https:// URL. That made my computer try to authenticate using my SSH keys instead of my login credentials.

Since I didn't have the SSH keys on my machine, it would never work. Once I removed and re-add the remote using git remote add origin https://github.com/<link-to-my-repo> then it prompted me to login on my browser to authenticate, and everything worked as expected!

Hope this helps someone else in the future!

Visual Studio Code and git : Permission denied to X

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