Git authentication fails after enabling 2FA

git github two-factor-authentication
Max Bileschi picture Max Bileschi · Aug 28, 2014 · Viewed 32.2k times · Source

I just enabled 2FA (I can't think of any other changes I made) and git asked for my username and password. I provided both, but they were "wrong". I tried many of the solutions here: Git push requires username and password but that didn't work. In particular, when switching from https to ssh, the ssh key gives

Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

$ git push
warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing in
Git 2.0 from 'matching' to 'simple'. To squelch this message
and maintain the current behavior after the default changes, use:

  git config --global push.default matching

To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:

  git config --global push.default simple

See 'git help config' and search for 'push.default' for further information.
(the 'simple' mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode
'current' instead of 'simple' if you sometimes use older versions of Git)

Username for 'https://github.com': **********
Password for 'https://[email protected]': 
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/mlbileschi/scala.git/'

Any tips?

Answer

Gergo Erdosi picture Gergo Erdosi · Aug 28, 2014

You need to generate an access token. You can create one by going to your settings page.

enter image description here

Use this access token as your password in the command line.

Related questions

2FA give problems when pushing to GitHub

I've clone a project on GitHub on my Raspberry Pi, create a new branch and push everything to the repository. For this I needed next commands: git clone https://www.github.com/heinpauwelyn/my_repo git checkout -b raspberry git …

Read More
How can I determine the URL that a local Git repository was originally cloned from?

I pulled a project from GitHub a few days ago. I've since discovered that there are several forks on GitHub, and I neglected to note which one I took originally. How can I determine which of those forks I pulled?

Read More
Git pull a certain branch from GitHub

I have a project with multiple branches. I've been pushing them to GitHub, and now that someone else is working on the project I need to pull their branches from GitHub. It works fine in master. But say that someone …

Read More