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mohamed wael thabet
mohamed wael thabet

Reputation: 305

how to give a username and a password via a git push

I'm trying to use a username and a password for a git push but I cannot find the options to use with the git command.

I've tried: http://username@gitserver/project

Can anyone help?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12772

Answers (2)

Marek Vavrusa
Marek Vavrusa

Reputation: 256

Git leaves authentication to the used protocol, like ssh or http in your case, therefore the authentication method may not even be password-based.

I presume you want to do automatic authentication, in that case you can use key-based ssh. Github has an example how to do that. If you're rolling your own Git server, then you need to add your key fingerprint to the authorized_keys, see the relevant question.

Upvotes: 1

nwinkler
nwinkler

Reputation: 54437

Typically, you don't provide the credentials in the URL. It's OK to have the username in there like you did - Git will then ask for the password.

You could try adding the password like this, but it's not a good idea, since it means having the password in plain text, issues with special characters/encoding, etc.:

http://username:password@gitserver/project

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but in general, it's better to use a credential helper to store passwords so you don't have to reenter them every time: https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git - this page has instructions for the most common operating systems.

Upvotes: 2

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