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coure2011
coure2011

Reputation: 42464

Pushing to public repo from private repo failed with status code 403

I have 2 repos: user/ext-private and user/ext-public. I want to push some files to public repo but its failing with following error:

[master 869955c] update it
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

nothing to commit, working tree clean
remote: Permission to user/ext-public.git denied to github-actions[bot].
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/user/ext-public/': The requested URL returned error: 403
Error: Process completed with exit code 128.

Here is my action:

name: Master Branch

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Use Node.js 14.x
      uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      with:
        node-version: 14.x
        cache: 'yarn'
    - run: yarn    

    - name: Checkout Public repo
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        repository: user/ext-public
        path: ext-public
        ref: 'master'
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        fetch-depth: 0

    - name: Update file
      run: |
        git config -l
        echo "Hello you!" >> README.md
        git config --global user.name 'GithubUser'
        git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
        git add .
        git commit -m "update it"
        git status
        git push -u origin HEAD
      working-directory: ext-public

See the error log here https://github.com/coure2011/ext_code/runs/5548688844?check_suite_focus=true

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1448

Answers (1)

GuiFalourd
GuiFalourd

Reputation: 23160

The problem is that you're using the GITHUB_TOKEN (which has a specific permission scope) instead of a PAT (Personal Access Token).

You can't push to another repo using the GITHUB_TOKEN, you'll need a PAT to do so.

There are also many actions from the marketplace to perform the push operation for you, after adding the PAT as a secret.

Upvotes: 2

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