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Incorrect username to push to Git Repo

mikeleung

Hi, I have incorrectly typed my username while i was doing a pushing to a Git Repo.

I am now staying at the popup 'Password Required' For user xxx on host github.com.

I cannot provide the correct credential as the username is incorrect. But I can find nowhere to change this saved username.

I am stuck... may be it is a numb question as I am new to SourceTree ( and quite new to Git also ). Can anyone give me any hints?

Accepted answers

mikeleung

After several attempts over time, I managed to solve it accidentally. Not sure if it is after some updates or settings.

I would suggest anyone who has the similar problem to take a look for preference -> Network and see if the usernames there would give you some help.

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Colin Goudie

Go to the folder where you git repo is checked out and edit .git/config

You will find the repository URL in there and it probably has your incorrect username set infront of it. Something like username@github.com

Change it there and push again

mikeleung

Thanks Colin for your answer. No luck, my config file looks like this:

repositoryformatversion = 0

3 filemode = false

4 bare = false

5 logallrefupdates = true

6 ignorecase = true

7 [remote "origin"]

8 fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

9 url = https://github.com/xxxxxx

10 [branch "master"]

11 remote = origin

12 merge = refs/heads/master

13 [branch "server-edition"]

14 remote = origin

15 merge = refs/heads/server-edition

16 [user]

Nothing looks like as mentioned...

Colin Goudie

Maybe check your global git config see if anything is in there. Not sure where sourcetree might store that username.

It's generally in your home dir. ~/.gitconfig

stevestreeting

Hmm, the username field should only be disabled if it's present in the URL. What happens if you submit the login box anyway? It should definitely prompt you again to supply a username if the login fails once.

mikeleung

After several attempts over time, I managed to solve it accidentally. Not sure if it is after some updates or settings.

I would suggest anyone who has the similar problem to take a look for preference -> Network and see if the usernames there would give you some help.

Ivan Brewis

Had this issue.

What worked for me was Tools->Options->Authentication. SourceTree seems to use this and not the username specified on the actual remore...

This comment lead me to the answer.

Ivan Brewis

What worked for me was Tools->Options->Authentication. SourceTree seems to use this and not the username specified on the actual remore...

Chris Fabri

I had this same problem - here is what I did; from the sourceTree mac menu, select:

SourceTree -->Network

There in the dialog was the incorrect login name to gitHub, which I then changed. Coms to the repo then began to work.

Mike Taylor2

Old thread but this worked for me too. I kept thinking it was a problem with the password because of the fact that SourceTree also won't accept the passphrase for my Putty default_rsa.ppk private key. I verified I'm entering the right one by using PuttyGen to load it and finally gave up and removed the passphrase with PuttyGen. But the problem with the repo login was not the password it was that it was using the wrong username (my email address). So fixed that as noted here under Tools->Options->Authentication. Didn't work when I tried to change it under Repository Settings. It will never remember the username I put there. Like it just ignores it and even opening the dialog again just shows a blank username again.

kAli70

I had the same problem and I solved it by going to the prefrences->Network and removed the accoount which I do not know its password.....I assume you entered this account accedientally

It worked for me

Paul George

I could authenticate in SourceTree > Tools > Options > Authentication

When pushing, I got a greyed-out and incorrect username prompting for password.

Turns out this username was stored in this file:

%localappdata%\Atlassian\SourceTree\userhosts

i.e. C:\Users\Paul\AppData\Local\Atlassian\SourceTree\userhosts

Just delete or edit that file.

Contained something like:

"github.com

[incorrect-email-address]"

rswamy

This worked for me! Thanks!

preetam jadakar

Currently I couldn't find Preferences->Network at least for MAC version.

Resolved issue by reaching at Preferences -> Advanced.

호옹잉잉

very very Thanks!!!!! you're my god... angel!!

Nathan Flier

Thank you so much!

armchairdeity

So for me, on Mac... I kept getting the wrong login name... here are some key places to look:

~/Library/ApplicationSupport/SourceTree - you'll see your passwords in there stored as one file peer username/domain combo.
KeyChain Access - your logins are stored there under labels that look like this:
- git.foo.com Access Key for {username}

The weird thing was no matter how many times I removed and re-added them it kept asking for just the password and never the username. I even tried adding my username @ my host/domain name... no good.

Finally I figured out that I had added my username as "myId@host.dom" under Preferences... > ADVANCED > Default Usernames and we had since switched to a new login format that drops the @host.dom part off, so I forced myself to log in with the wrong username. Once I removed that entry everything was just fine, I was prompted for my username next time I tried to connect and it was all good.

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Tarak Bhavsar

For me on MacOS BigSur 11.4 and Sourcetree, tried above but didn't fixed the multiple users and sourceTree was not picking up the correct user

Alternatively tried updating my .gitconfig file and worked

```

$ vi ~/.gitconfig

========

....

[mergetool "sourcetree"]

cmd = /Applications/Sourcetree.app/Contents/Resources/opendiff-w.sh \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" -ancestor \"$BASE\" -merge \"$MERGED\"

trustExitCode = true

[user]

name = <user> <--- Changed the user

email = <user_email> <--- Changed the email

....

=========

```

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