

Yours has pictures though so easier to read. I'll clone the 'My-First-GitHub-Site' to my local machine with SourceTree. Updated: May 15th, 2014 - Add KB link from atlassian.
#Sourcetree git authentication failed password#
I recommend saving the password in your keychain. In the Authenticate window make sure and use your newly generated OTP token as your password. Now you need to click on “Edit Accounts…” so you can select your Github account and make modifications. You can accomplish this by opening the Bookmarks window and clicking on the “Hosted Repositories” button. If you already have SourceTree setup, you will need to edit your account password for GitHub. Make sure at least the “repo” and “public_repo” options are checked. To create the OTP, use the following link. This means if I ever need to reject a token it will only effect the one version of SourceTree on one device.īelow are the steps needed to create your OTP token and re-add your Github account in SourceTree. It is recommended practice to use one token per application. You can verify that your environment is configured correctly by running git config -list and looking. Luckily Github has made creating a OTP quite easy once you know what you are looking for. Most likely, your environment is not configured correctly.

Copy the token and use it as a password in your hosted repositories.Note: If you use the official GitHub app you will not run into a login error because their app uses the GitHub API for authentication.Select which scopes you wish to grant this token.Click on the Generate new token button.Go to your Personal Access Tokens settings in GitHub.To work with GitHub's two-factor authentication in SourceTree you can simply use your access token instead of your password. Would you need to use your ssh key, you should at least change the origin url: git remote set-url origin :Nosthertus/nodejs_Chat.git However, it still continues to fail from within SourceTree, even after re-starting SourceTree.
Note that ssh keys have no effect on an https url like I found that if I open a Terminal window for a given repo, and do 'pull

> Done joseposes22 edited WTF this workarround works We put password as access token and our username and works fine. On OSX: go to SourceTree -> Preferences -> Network and delete the default username there.įollowing the Heartbleed bug, GitHub has reset all browser sessions that were active prior to the vulnerability being addressed on our servers.Ĭheck if your PAT (Personnal Access token) is still valid in the Applications section of your GitHub Account. com ': fatal: Authentication failed If you are using SSH for Git authentication, rest easy: you don't need to do anything There also should be the second part, e Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it I'm also attempting to clone a non. Click Authentication tab, add account, choose gitlab and enter username as name of personal access token, password is Personal Access Token. This will make the system request a new password when you next try to connect. If your password recently changed, select the repository, go to Tools -> options, go to Authentication tab and delete the stored password.
