Change username Github "You must verify your email address" 403 error on git push

Question

I recently changed my username on github (so that everything redirects to a new URL on my username)

I got this error through a cmd line git push

You must verify your email address

Fatal: The request URL returned error: 403

However, github wouldn't let me resend email verification under account > settings

I also did the following, per githubs guidelines on username change

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/myNewUserName/repo-name

on all my new repos. Then I ensured I had the emails set correctly on my .git/config file

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Still could not fix problem

Answer 1

SOLUTION: I ended up contacting github support

Github support said to use this command

git config --global --unset credential.helper

so that I could re-enter my account information when sending git push

This didn't work so I had to go to

Control Panel → User Accounts → Credential Manager→ Windows Credential Manager → Delete the one associated with github

Since my repos were committed under my old-username, there were conflicts using my new-username, despite the fact I had no email changes.

I had to disable "Block-command line pushes that expose your personal email address" as one potential solution. I have a dedicated email when sending commits so this is not a problem for me

Per github, the reasons are as follows:

If you want to keep this feature enabled (block cmd line expose email), you'll need to re-write the Git history of this repository to remove your private email address from the author info for each commit. Alternatively you can turn off this feature.

Alternate solutions here

https://help.github.com/articles/blocking-command-line-pushes-that-expose-your-personal-email-address/

https://help.github.com/articles/changing-author-info

Settings information here

https://github.com/settings/emails

hopefully this helps out someone when changing their github username

Answer 2

For OSX had to access keychain app and delete the key associated with github.

They key had a '@' symbol.

Answer 3

The problem for me was that I cloned the repo originally over HTTPS and had 2FA enabled. Once I set the remote URL to SSH, then it all worked fine!

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:user/repo-name.git