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Reputation: 8959

Git access to private repository using HTTPS

Trying to clone a private repository I have access to using HTTPS protocol, as that is only allowed outgoing traffic.

git does not ask for passwords, just failed.

error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/blah/blahblah.git/info/refs

What am I missing ?

Upvotes: 54

Views: 124342

Answers (6)

lanlan2028
lanlan2028

Reputation: 1

If you try logging in with a new account, you may still encounter authentication failures after creating a new token. You need device activation to remember your credentials. There are two ways, but I highly recommend GitHub CLI.

Just follow the steps in GitHub Docs below.

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/caching-your-github-credentials-in-git

After entering the code displayed on your device to activate the device, I can use the git clone immediately.

Upvotes: 0

user19599466
user19599466

Reputation: 33

While I was using HTTPS connections to AWS CodeCommit repositories on Linux, macOS, or Unix I got the same error.

I needed to enable the Git credential UseHttpPath by using below command. git config --global credential.UseHttpPath true

Upvotes: 3

Eldad Peretz
Eldad Peretz

Reputation: 11

Github no longer permit password authentication over https: you need to use a personal access token instead.

git clone https://<your_token>@github.com/<username>/<repo_name>.git

Upvotes: 0

Eduardo Kazan
Eduardo Kazan

Reputation: 71

If you are using two-factor authentication, you go to this link first:

https://github.com/settings/tokens

Create a token, and then use it as the password:

git clone https://username:[email protected]/blah/blahblah.git

Upvotes: 7

mrjoltcola
mrjoltcola

Reputation: 20842

Did you try inserting the username (and optionally password) in the clone URL?

 git clone https://[email protected]/blah/blahblah.git

or if you accept the consequences of storing your password in plain view:

 git clone https://username:[email protected]/blah/blahblah.git

See this thread with a lot of good info:

How to provide username and password when run "git clone [email protected]"?

EDIT: My original answer was just a quick fix, without understanding the full history of the asker, and it also works unattended, but for best security practices its better to let Git store your password. See @phpguru's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29018371/257090 as well.

Upvotes: 95

phpguru
phpguru

Reputation: 2371

The answer by @mrjoltcola should work, but if you would prefer not to place your github password in your server's bash_history in plaintext on the command line then you can omit the password and be prompted for it:

git clone https://[email protected]/organizationname/reponame.git
Password:

I like that better.

Upvotes: 40

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