git asking for user credentials (Gitlab)

Question

I want to do my inital commit on a project. Git online and local repos are already set up and the ssh key should also work properly. I'll use example.com as reference for my git server.

When I type ssh [email protected] I get Welcome to GitLab, Name Surname!

When I try to push my first commit git push --set-upstream origin master it is asking for user credentials, but I'm not sure where to find those. I got a loginname and password from my company and on GitLab my username is name.surname. I tried both combinations loginname/password and username/password but both say

remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://gitlab.example.com/name.surname/project.git/

Later on I want to achieve the connection directly in Visual Studio, but there happens the same, when I want to push something, it's asking for user credentials.

Answer 1

Your remote (origin) is set to the https URL instead of the ssh URL.

See the output of git remote show origin.

You can change the URL using:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:name.surname/project.git