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I'm trying to push, pull, and whatever to my GitHub repository from Visual Studio Code.
I enter my username and password, but I'm getting the error:
Authentication failed on the git remote.
I just logged in on github.com with the same user/password. I tried creating a personal access token, using it as a password, but I got the same error.
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Windows start up menu,Search for windows credential manager. Search for bitbucket url, Try updating password there.. and do git operation again. It should work.
Install GitHub CLI on macOS, Windows, or Linux. In the command line, enter gh auth login , then follow the prompts. When prompted for your preferred protocol for Git operations, select HTTPS . When asked if you would like to authenticate to Git with your GitHub credentials, enter Y .
Entering Git Username and Password in Remote URL To prevent Git from asking for your username and password, you can enter the login credentials in the URL as shown. The main drawback of this method that your username and password will be saved in the command in the Shell history file.
You may see this error when you clone a repository that is private or when you try to pull from or push to an existing repository without being correctly authenticated. There are other causes to this error. In many cases, Git does not provide specific explanations as to why authentication has failed.
To access private remote repositories and modify remote repositories using the Git command line, you must be authenticated. If you try to access or modify a repository and enter the wrong authentication credentials, you’ll encounter the remote: invalid username or password error. In this guide, we discuss the most common causes of this error.
In many cases, Git does not provide specific explanations as to why authentication has failed. Git often just tells you that your credentials are invalid, like this error message suggests. Let’s discuss these causes individually. We’re going to clone one of our Git repositories using SSH. The repository is called career-karma-tutorials/ck-git.
If you enabled two-factor authentication in your GitHub account you won't be able to push via HTTPS using your accounts password. Instead you need to generate a personal access token. This can be done in the application settings of your GitHub account. Using this token as your password should allow you to push to your remote repository via HTTPS.
I believe I have found a solution to this problem. None of the solutions above worked for me. I think the root cause of this issue is that GitHub has ended support for password authentication on August 13, 2021. Instead a personal access token needs to be used.
The steps to solve this issue are as follows:
git remote set-url origin https://<TOKEN>@github.com/<user_name or organization_name>/<repo_name>.git
In case you would like to follow a video guide, this one proved to be quite helpful.
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I solved it by following Caching your GitHub password in Git.
The steps are as follows:
git config --global credential.helper wincred
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