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Astariul
Astariul

Reputation: 2354

Visual Studio Code and git : Permission denied to X

I have 2 github account X (professional one) and Y (personal one).

On my personal computed, I used both account, with Visual Code.

But now, when I try to push some changes to my repository, I have a message :

Permission to Y/repo.git denied to X.

It's a duplicate of this, but the answer there are not working for me.

I tried :

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Didn't work. I tried without --global, didn't work.

I also saw this answer, but I have no idea how to 'un-blacklist' a file. Anyway I can't even find my .gitconfig.

I'm loosing patience and hope, if anyone has a solution to this, I will be very grateful for sharing !

Upvotes: 4

Views: 40518

Answers (3)

Steven Deshazer
Steven Deshazer

Reputation: 319

I just wanted to add to this for future reference.

I was experiencing the same issue. However, that was because I added the remote using the SSH git@ style URL instead of the https:// URL. That made my computer try to authenticate using my SSH keys instead of my login credentials.

Since I didn't have the SSH keys on my machine, it would never work. Once I removed and re-add the remote using git remote add origin https://github.com/<link-to-my-repo> then it prompted me to login on my browser to authenticate, and everything worked as expected!

Hope this helps someone else in the future!

Upvotes: 2

MAJ
MAJ

Reputation: 31

I fixed the issue on my machine by signing out of the account I was logged into on vs-code by using the Accounts button on the left side bar. I had to go through the login process again with the trusted account.

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Upvotes: 3

RedDragonWebDesign
RedDragonWebDesign

Reputation: 2571

I had a similar problem. @Astariul's comment worked for me. I'll post it here for visibility. He linked to https://stackoverflow.com/a/40907049/9494790

Basically, an old Git login is being stored in Windows and needs to be deleted. Go to Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage your credentials, delete all the ones involving Git and VS Code, then restart VS Code.

Upvotes: 6

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