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Cannot add GitLab account due to authentication failure (Sourcetree 4.0 on Mac)

Rob Majors · 2020-01-03T01:12:52+00:00

Steps to reproduce * In Sourcetree go to Remote > Accounts... > Add... * Select one of the GitLab hosts (I'm using GitLab Enterprise) and provide a URL if required * Enter username and password * Select the HTTPS protocol (per the comments in the question linked below this also happens if using SSH) * Click "Save" Result…

Rob Majors

Steps to reproduce

In Sourcetree go to Remote > Accounts... > Add...
Select one of the GitLab hosts (I'm using GitLab Enterprise) and provide a URL if required
Enter username and password
Select the HTTPS protocol (per the comments in the question linked below this also happens if using SSH)
Click "Save"

Result
The following dialog always appears:

Login error
We couldn't connect to GitLab Enterprise with your (<your_username>) credentials. Check your username and try the password again.

Environment

I am encountering this on Sourcetree 4.0 (229) on macOS 10.14.6

Additional information

As in the comments to this question: there was a set of steps which would resolve this issue in Sourcetree versions prior to circa 3.1.2 (216 or 225) but from that point on the UI changed and it was not possible to follow these steps, or possibly these steps never worked on the Mac Sourcetree application.

In particular, there is now nowhere in the Sourcetree UI where it is possible to load or specify a Private Token once one has been generated in GitLab.

That question is marked as Resolved and thus no further assistance has been provided there, so I am opening a new question to get help with the problem in its current form.

Accepted answers

Rob Majors

SOLUTION: In step 3, enter your personal access token as the password. Do not enter your GitLab password.

All comments

Rob Majors

SOLUTION: In step 3, enter your personal access token as the password. Do not enter your GitLab password.

Michael Bechard

This doesn't work for me, on Sourcetree 4.0.1. I'm on Mac 10.14.5.

Jurjen_van_Dijk

Works for me on SourceTree 4.0.1. OS X 10.14.5

smityfke

This doesn't work for me too, on Sourcetree 4.0.1 Mac OS X 10.15.3

Grace Chang_a91lg7

Adding the token seems to work as a password hack; however, when I git push/pull, I'm prompted with another auth that fails with either my Gitlab password or the token.

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Oana Mada

PROBLEM SOLVED

The solution was (on Mac):

- revoke the old Access Token from GitLab (which had only the next Scopes: read_repository, write_repository)

- generate new Access Token having the next Scopes: api, read_user, read_repository, write_repository (it was strange that for other colleague it worked only with read_repository, write_repository)

- on SourceTree: go to SourceTree -> Preferences ->Accounts -> Add -> fill-in the details as in the following image (and for Password use the Access Token):

After this, I was able to Clone Repository ("Clone from URL").

Also, this link inspired me: https://www.awordfromnet.com/access-gitlab-via-sourcetree-updated/