If you have 2fa (MFA) enabled your password is not the password that the git client needs. You will find the correct token, https://github.com/settings/tokens here by creating a personal access token. Which can be used when committing/pushing from the CLI.
-- Cheers, Tony ----------------------- t...@pc-tony.com http://www.pc-tony.com GPG - 3072D/2543E323 ----------------------- > On 19 Jan 2016, at 01:49, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Craig L Russell <c...@apache.org> wrote: >> I tried again with a different url and it still failed. >> >> Password for 'https://clr-apa...@github.com': >> remote: Invalid username or password. >> fatal: Authentication failed for >> 'https://clr-apa...@github.com/apache/whimsy/' >> >> Do I need to branch the repository differently? > > I'll describe what worked for me. > > First, I uploaded my ssh key to github. Follow these instructions: > > https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/#step-4-add-your-ssh-key-to-your-account > > You can start at step 4 as you already have a key (RSA preferred, but > DSA is accepted). > > Next, go to your whimsy clone directory, and execute the following command: > > git remote set-url origin g...@github.com:apache/whimsy.git > > (Note: instead of looking up this command every time, I do this by > editing .git/config directly which is safe to do). > > You can verify that you have configured this correctly by issuing: > > $ git remote -v > origin g...@github.com:apache/whimsy.git (fetch) > origin g...@github.com:apache/whimsy.git (push) > > At this point, both "git pull" and "get push" should both work. > > - Sam Ruby > > >>> On Jan 18, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Craig L Russell <c...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to push a change to whimsy and I'm getting remote authentication >>> failure: >>> >>> clr% git push >>> Password for 'https://clr-apa...@github.com': >>> remote: Invalid username or password. >>> fatal: Authentication failed for >>> 'https://clr-apa...@github.com/apache/whimsy.git/' >>> >>> I have changed my password. I'm able to sign in to github.com with 2fa >>> (text to phone). But cannot push. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Craig >>> >>> Craig L Russell >>> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >>> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo >>> >>> >>> >> >> Craig L Russell >> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo >> >> >>
