Git push returning error and not prompting for password

Question

I followed the first steps after creating a repository in github, but when I got to the line: git push -u origin master it fails with this error:

user$ git push -u origin master
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/thestranger/cfinder.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

I have remote added the correct origin url and I have git 1.7.10. The weird thing is that it is not prompting me for a username or password at all so I don't know what it's trying to use to access the repository on github. Does anyone know why it wouldn't prompt me for a password?

To clarify, the steps I followed were the ones github showed me after immediately creating the repository:

touch README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/thestranger/cfinder.git
git push -u origin master

Answer 1

You might try changing the URL to use SSH instead of HTTPS. In the root of your repo:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:thestranger/cfinder.git

This will require that you have a public key registered on your GitHub account.