Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

Question

I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated. I've made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server. Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.

C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call>git push Password: error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog [email protected]/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs  fatal: HTTP request failed 

Also set it up with verbose mode. I'm still pretty baffled.

C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call>set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1  C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call>git push Password: * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults * About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0) *   Trying 207.97.227.239... * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head! * Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0) * successfully set certificate verify locations: *   CAfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt   CApath: none * SSL connection using AES256-SHA * Server certificate: *        subject: 2.5.4.15=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1. 3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L =San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com *        start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT *        expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT *        subjectAltName: github.com matched *        issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Ass urance EV CA-1 *        SSL certificate verify ok. > GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb Host: github.com Accept: */* Pragma: no-cache  < HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required < Server: nginx/1.0.4 < Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:44:41 GMT < Content-Type: text/plain < Connection: keep-alive < Content-Length: 55 < WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub" < * Ignoring the response-body * Expire cleared * Connection #0 to host github.com left intact * Issue another request to this URL: 'https://[email protected]/dereker dmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack' * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host github.com * Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0) * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head! * Server auth using Basic with user 'MichaelDrogalis' > GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb Host: github.com Accept: */* Pragma: no-cache  < HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required < Server: nginx/1.0.4 < Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:44:41 GMT < Content-Type: text/plain < Connection: keep-alive < Content-Length: 55 * Authentication problem. Ignoring this. < WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub" * The requested URL returned error: 401 * Closing connection #0 * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults * About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0) *   Trying 207.97.227.239... * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head! * Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0) * successfully set certificate verify locations: *   CAfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt   CApath: none * SSL re-using session ID * SSL connection using AES256-SHA * old SSL session ID is stale, removing * Server certificate: *        subject: 2.5.4.15=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1. 3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L =San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com *        start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT *        expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT *        subjectAltName: github.com matched *        issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Ass urance EV CA-1 *        SSL certificate verify ok. * Server auth using Basic with user 'MichaelDrogalis' > GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb Host: github.com Accept: */* Pragma: no-cache  * The requested URL returned error: 403 * Expire cleared * Closing connection #0 error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog [email protected]/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs  fatal: HTTP request failed 

These are the versions of git and curl that I have:

C:\Users\XPherior>git --version git version 1.7.4.msysgit.0  C:\Users\XPherior>curl --version curl 7.21.7 (amd64-pc-win32) libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate Largefile NTLM SSL SSPI libz 

Answer 1

I just got the same problem and just figured out what's cause.

Github seems only supports ssh way to read&write the repo, although https way also displayed 'Read&Write'.

So you need to change your repo config on your PC to ssh way:

1. edit .git/config file under your repo directory
2. find url=entry under section [remote "origin"]
3. change it from url=https://[email protected]/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git to [email protected]/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git. that is, change all the texts before @ symbol to ssh://git
4. Save config file and quit. now you could use git push origin master to sync your repo on GitHub

Answer 2

To definitely be able to login using https protocol, you should first set your authentication credential to the git Remote URI:

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

Then you'll be asked for a password when trying to git push.

In fact, this is on the http authentication format. You could set a password too:

https://youruser:[email protected]/user/repo.git 

You should be aware that if you do this, your github password will be stored in plaintext in your .git directory, which is obviously undesirable.