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I’m watching this thread, feel free to watch mine in case I get a solution from someone. I did get some advice but it did not solve it for me.

Good luck!

It seems that my password is cached somewhere and git is sending it automatically. I need to delete this, so that I can get it to prompt for credentials and input the PAT that I have created. But I cannot find where the password is cached. I’ve looked in the Windows Credentials Manager but there are no entries there for git. I don’t see a password cached in any of the .git config files. I’m really stuck. How can I purge this cached password? When I installed git I also installed Git Credential Manager Core. Is it possibly cached there? I don’t know to how I can tell.

It seems that my password is cached somewhere and git is sending it automatically.

Yes, that’s indeed the case.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store

When I installed git I also installed Git Credential Manager Core. Is it possibly cached there? I don’t know to how I can tell.

Possibly, if you have enabled Git to use that instead of its default credentials tool.

A good file to check is .git-credentials in your User folder (talking about Windows here: C:\Users\YourUsername\), and also in the .ssh/ subfolder therein, in case you’re using SSH with Git.

If not, you’ll have to query your Git configuration to check which credentials manager it’s using, and where it might be storing them:

Tajmone, thanks. I don’t find a .git-credentials file anywhere.
I have this entry in .gitconfig

[credential]
helper = manager-core

I queried the gcm-core version:

d:\projects>git credential-manager-core --version
2.0.475+27fbadca1d

After reading the docs about gcm-core, it looks like I need to send the erase command, although I’m not sure, it’s not at all clear to me what I should do. Anyway, I tried this:

d:\projects>git credential-manager-core erase
protocol=https
host=github.com
username=eygilbert

But it still has the password cached. Can you tell me what the commands should be to erase the password?

The docs for gcm-core say this about the commands get / store / erase:

“Commands for interaction with Git. You shouldn’t need to run these manually.” Which makes me think I’m looking in the wrong place.

On your device type in credential manager on windows search anf launch app. Select the correct tab and delete the entry referring to git.
Next time you perform a Git command that requires authentication you will be prompted to enter credential

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If you are still using an existing cached password for you login you will need to remove it, the below will help, hopefully slight_smile Launch ‘Credential Manager’ on your Windows device. Switch to tab Windows Credentials (it default displayed tab Web Credentials on my device). A list of locally cached credentials are then shown Find an entry starting something like git:htttps//login@github.com (this will be an exist cached entry for your username/password. You can safely delete this by …

Thank you byrneh. I have looked at all the Windows credentials listed in Credential Manager, and none of them are anything related to git.

@eygilbert are you using git command line or Tortoise Git?
If using git command line that is installed with git-scm install. It will will only use the Git credential manager specified in you git config for caching, you can even disable the use of crendential manager if you so choose.
If you type git version you should see something like git version 2.32.0.windows.1 returned.
To see in detail you local git configuration type
git config --list --show-origin --show-scope

I don’t use Tortoise Git but I am told this suggestion may work.
Go to your TortoiseGit settings for your repository, then go to the local .git/config… It should open in Notepad.
After that, edit the URL to the repository, in the format of github username:access_token@rest/of/the/url.git

are you using git command line or Tortoise Git?

I normally use TortoiseGit, but since my problem seems to be with the underlying command-line git, I have been working with that to try to solve the problem. Installing TortoiseGit requires that I also install the command-line git.

If you type git version you should see something like git version 2.32.0.windows.1 returned.

d:\projects>git version
git version 2.32.0.windows.2

d:\projects>git config --list --show-origin
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig credential.helper=manager-core
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean – %f
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge – %f
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.required=true
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig http.sslbackend=openssl
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig http.sslcainfo=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig core.autocrlf=input
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig core.fscache=true
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig core.symlinks=false
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig core.editor=notepad
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig pull.rebase=false
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig credential.https://dev.azure.com.usehttppath=true
file:C:/Program Files/Git/etc/gitconfig init.defaultbranch=master
file:c:/Users/family/Documents/.gitconfig user.name=Ed Gilbert
file:c:/Users/family/Documents/.gitconfig user.email=eygilbert@gmail.com
file:c:/Users/family/Documents/.gitconfig credential.https://github.com.helper=wincred
file:c:/Users/family/Documents/.gitconfig credential.https://github.com.username=eygilbert
file:c:/Users/family/Documents/.gitconfig gui.recentrepo=D:/Projects/Git/GuiCheckers

After that, edit the URL to the repository, in the format of github username:access_token@rest/of/the/url.git

Here is the entry from the config file of one of my repos:

[remote "origin"]
	url = https://github.com/eygilbert/egdb_intl
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

It’s not in the format that you gave. I’m not sure how to proceed from there. Should I simply replace my username with username:access_token in the line below?

url = https://github.com/eygilbert/egdb_intl

Ah, I misunderstood your suggestion. I edited the config file to look like this:

url = https://token:ghp_........@github.com/eygilbert/egdb_intl

and now I am able to push to this repos. Thanks for the help!

I finally found the root cause of my problem.

Excellent! Mark your solution as the Solution, so other users can quickly find it and benefit from it.

Thanks, it’s that. However I have two entries for Github… Grrr

Hi @Naheulf! Nice to see you here on the Community Forum! (I’ve just labeled your PR for the French docs, thanks!)

I had a similar problem. It turned out to be I had 2 entries in the windows credential manager: one for https://myusername@xxx,gitlab.com, the other just for https://xxx,gitlab.com, or I think that was the reason. deleting one seems to have fixed the issue, but who knows?