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Jorgs
Jorgs

Reputation: 91

Can I trust Git Credential Manager by GitCredentialManager?

I've used Github desktop for a couple of years. Today it will suddenly would not log in to my account, although I have not changed password lately. When I click login with browser I'm taken to a page that says "Git Credential Manager by GitCredentialManager wants to access your account" and that I should authorize full read and write access.

Googling this has not given me any clues to why this would suddenly happen. Do I have to start using this service to login to Github desktop or could this be a phishing attempt?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4012

Answers (2)

ofri cofri
ofri cofri

Reputation: 1026

I found this article by Microsoft, where they mention that "Git Credential Manager simplifies authentication with your Azure Repos Git repositories". Also, in the "Getting Help" section, they mention "You can open and report issues with Git Credential Manager on the project GitHub", where they link to the official Git Credential Manager repo.

Git Credential Manager is developed by https://github.com/git-ecosystem, which currently doesn't show any affiliation to https://github.com/git , so this also looked suspect to me. They could show that they are related somehow.

Upvotes: 0

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 41

I was in the same boat. After Googling a bit, I found this post on the GitHub blog: https://github.blog/2022-04-07-git-credential-manager-authentication-for-everyone/

Seems this is an official replacement for handling credentials in GitHub and Git Desktop.

Upvotes: 1

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