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I need to disable the credential helper for OS X: git credential-osxkeychain
It is disabled both in the global config file and in the local one, in fact it has never ben enabled. Still, it keeps memorizing my github login details.
I'm on a laptop, so I don't want automatic passwordless access to my repos.
I will use ssh keys. This is a new computer, and the whole system setup is still a work in progress.
For now I used the https repo refs, and the credential helper keeps kicking in.
These are my conf files:
git config --edit =>
[core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true precomposeunicode = false [remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/user/repo.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [branch "develop"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/develop [branch "deploy"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/deploy git config --global --edit =>
[user] email = **************** name = tom [color] ui = true [core] editor = subl -w [github] user = tompave [merge] conflictstyle = diff3 [push] default = simple Also, running git config --global credential.helper returns nothing (and that's right).
However, running git config credential.helper returns osxkeychain!
How is it possible? I can't see it in the local config file, where is it set?
I tried to set it up locally to see what would happen, and it did appear in the repodir/.git/config. Then I deleted the entry... but the helper is still here and active.
I can clearly see its entry in OS X keychain.
I can delete it, and then git will ask for the password again... but as soon as I type it (let's say, for a git fetch), the entry in keychain is restored.
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Since the credential. helper key is a multi-valued config list, there's no way to "unset" a helper once it's been set. So if your system /etc/gitconfig sets one, you can never avoid running it, but only add your own helpers on top. Since an empty value for credential.
To update your credentials, go to Control Panel → Credential Manager → Generic Credentials. Find the credentials related to your Git account and edit them to use the updated password. This should be the accepted answer if git config --list contains credential. helper=wincred .
To help track down the setting, I'd try to use:
git config --local credential.helper git config --global credential.helper git config --system credential.helper The first one checks the local repo config, the second is your ~/.gitconfig, and the third is based on where git is installed. Depending on which one comes back showing the credential helper, you can try using the equivalent --unset option:
git config --local --unset credential.helper git config --global --unset credential.helper git config --system --unset credential.helper The last one may not work if you don't have proper permissions. So you may need to run the last one under sudo for it to work correctly. FWIW, you may have installed for the pre-built git images for Mac OS X. If you cat /usr/local/git/etc/gitconfig (or /usr/local/etc/gitconfig if you installed git via Homebrew or a building locally), you'll see that it does set up the credential helper for you. So the last command above would help fix that problem.
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The other answers were very helpful. The credential.helper didn't show for me in any of the listings (specifying --local, --global, etc) and it always showed on a 'git config -l'. Using the --show-origin command showed that it was coming from an OS X-specific file.
$ git config --show-origin --get credential.helper file:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig osxkeychain If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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