From 2021-08-13, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add a PAT on your system.

Create Personal Access Token on GitHub

From your GitHub account, go to Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Token → Tokens (classic) → Generate New Token (Give your password) → Fillup the form → click Generate token → Copy the generated Token, it will be something like ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjmks4Tzuzgthdvfsrta

Now follow the below method based on your machine:

For Windows OS ⤴

Go to Credential Manager from Control Panel → Windows Credentials → find git:https://github.com → Edit → On Password replace with with your GitHub Personal Access Token → You are Done

If you don’t find git:https://github.com → Click on Add a generic credential → Internet address will be git:https://github.com and you need to type in your username and password will be your GitHub Personal Access Token → Click Ok and you are done

For macOS ⤴

Click on the Spotlight icon (magnifying glass) on the right side of the menu bar. Type Keychain access then press the Enter key to launch the app → In Keychain Access, search for github.com → Find the internet password entry for github.com → Edit or delete the entry accordingly → You are done

For a Linux-based OS ⤴

For Linux, you need to configure the local GIT client with a username
and email address,

$ git config --global user.name "your_github_username"
$ git config --global user.email "your_github_email"
$ git config -l

Once GIT is configured, we can begin using it to access GitHub.
Example:

$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY
> Cloning into `YOUR-REPOSITORY`...
Username: <type your username>
Password: <type your password or personal access token (GitHub)

Now cache the given record in your computer to remembers the token:

$ git config --global credential.helper cache

If needed, anytime you can delete the cache record by:

$ git config --global --unset credential.helper
$ git config --system --unset credential.helper

Now try to pull with -v to verify

$ git pull -v

Linux/Debian
(Clone as follows):

git clone https://<tokenhere>@github.com/<user>/<repo>.git

For JetBrains IDEs

You can consult the relevant help page for your IDE of choice (IntelliJ, PhpStorm, WebStorm, GoLand, PyCharm, Rider, RustRover) for more information on logging in. Below is a short snippet of the IntelliJ help page:

Register an existing account with a token

1. Press ⌘Сmd0/CtrlAlt0 (your actual key-binds may differ), to open settings and then select Version Control | GitHub.
2. Click the Add button.
3. Select Log In with Token.
4. The token can then be inserted into the following text-field:
5. Click Add Account

If you’re using macOS, just simply follow these steps:

1. Go to this link: (Profile -> settings -> developers setting -> personal access tokens). (don’t go to repository setting; it’s your profile setting)
2. Generate a new token and copy-paste it somewhere safely.
3. Now search for an app in your Mac, named Keychain Access.
4. Search for github.com (if there are multiple GitHub logins then choose Kind: Internet password), double-click it.
5. Click on show password, then enter your Mac’s password and hit Enter.
6. Password should be visible by now. Now, just paste the token you generated in step 2 and click Save changes.

And that’s it. Enjoy!

If you’re using Windows:

1. Follow steps 1 and 2 as above.
2. Search for an application in your Windows OS, named Credential Manager → then Windows Credentials.
3. Search for github.com and edit the password with the token you have generated on GitHub.
   Now enjoy!

Developer’s hack (shortcode):

git remote set-url origin https://<githubtoken>@github.com/<username>/<repositoryname>.git

While cloning:

git clone https://<username>:<githubtoken>@github.com/<username>/<repositoryname>.git

It will work on every OS (Mac, Windows, or Linux).

Cons: You have to remember or should need to do to each repository in your local. So I’ll prefer everyone to use above mentioned steps.

NOTE:

For those who don’t have this entry: it could be made. one way to do it is- to clone a project. then it will ask for your username and password. instead of password give it the token and then the entry would be made.

Use My Account → Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens → Generate new token.

git remote set-url origin https://<token>@github.com/<username>/<repo>

For Linux these simple steps can solve your problem

1. If your Git password is cached in credential.helper, then unset it:

   git config --local --unset credential.helper
   

   Or, If you have set your credentials globally, then:

   git config --global --unset credential.helper
   

2. Now go to your GitHub Account settings

3. Click Developer Settings

4. Select Personal Access

5. Generate a token with the given permissions, e.g.,

6. Now git pull inside your Git repository

7. Provide a username and the generated token as a password

That is a straightforward solution step by step.

PS: If you are annoyed by Git asking for username/token again and again, follow these three simple steps

• Run nano ~/.git-credentials. Remove the GitHub line and save it.

• git config --global credential.helper store

  Risky as physically the token is saved in file ~/.git-credentials

• Run git pull and provide the username and password only once

It will not ask for the username and access token again and again now!

For Windows OS,

GitHub has made changes in password authentication. If you are trying to access Git by username and password then it does not allow you. So use a personal access token instead of a password to access Git everywhere.

Here are the steps to generate personal access tokens.

Click here for Token – https://github.com/settings/tokens

Step 1 – Open GitHub and log in with your credentials.

Step 2 – Click on the Setting menu.

Step 3 – From the Setting menu click on Developer Settings

Step 4 – From the Developer Settings menu, click on Personal access token

Step 5 – From the Personal access token, click on the Generate new Token button.

Step 6 – Now fill up required details like Note, Expiration, Select scopes. And then click on the Generate Token button.

Step 7 – After that, a new token has been generated. Copy that generated token and use this token to access Git with username and token.

If you are using the Windows operating system then please follow the below step.

Open Control Panel → User Accounts → Manage your credentials → Windows Credentials.

It will show all generic credentials. Find your GitHub URL and click on that. Now click on the edit button. And then add the personal access token generated from GitHub into the password field. And click on the Save button.

Now you can access Git.

If you are accessing Git in Android Studio, if asked for a password then add the GitHub personal access token instead of your password everywhere.

This message means that you’re using a password instead of a personal access token to access GitHub over HTTPS, and that’s no longer allowed. GitHub has disabled password authentication because it’s common for people to accidentally leak their passwords, and while a personal access token can be restricted to limit the damage, a password cannot.

If you haven’t explicitly entered your password at a prompt, then it’s likely you have a credential manager which is saving your password and sending it without prompting you.

You can follow the directions for clearing your credential manager listed in the Git FAQ:

$ echo url=https://[email protected] | git credential reject

You should use this same URL, but replace account with your own username (e.g., in my case, it would look like echo url=https://[email protected]).

Then, the next time you try to push or pull, Git will prompt you for a username and password. For the username, enter your GitHub username, and for the password, generate a new personal access token on the appropriate settings page and paste it into the password field. If you’re working from the command line, you may not see any indication that the password was successfully pasted; this is normal, so just hit Enter afterwards.

That will save the personal access token in your credential manager for the next time, assuming you have one set up. If you’re not sure if you have one set up, run git config credential.helper and see if it outputs anything.

If you don’t have one set up, you should add one so that you don’t have to memorize your token. Run one of the following commands, depending on operating system:

• git config --global credential.helper manager on Windows;
• git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain on macOS;
• git config --global credential.helper libsecret on Linux (if available); or
• git config --global credential.helper store on Linux if libsecret isn’t available.

Then you can try the push or pull again until you’re no longer prompted.

Simplest solution (May 2022):

1. Create a new token at Personal access tokens
2. Copy token (Windows: Ctrl + C, macOS: Cmd + C, or click copy icon)
3. Try to push your local repository: git push
4. Enter your GitHub user name
5. Paste the token as your password

Generate an access token in GitHub from Settings → Developer settings.

If you have cloned your repository in the past and made it as origin, then you can change the authentication so,

git remote set-url origin https://<token>@github.com/<username>/<repo>.git

If you are going to clone repository after 13 August 2021, then you can use the normal clone command and set the generated access token in the password field.

For Ubuntu, use the following steps

• At https://github.com/settings/tokens, go and generate a token.

• git push

• username: user_github_username

• password: add_generated_token instead of the password.

A one-command simple solution to solve it

If your computer has no SSH key added to the GitHub account, I add information for you to do it at the end of the answer. You should do it first.

After push failed, then do this:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:{user_id}/{project_name}.git

And push again. Then it works.

Let me show my case in the following.
(And I will guide you on how to do your case.)

At the first, when I add, commit, and push, then I meet this issue:

And then, my current Git log is the following.

In the final, this is my way to solve the issue.

In my case,

1. {project_name} <-> open-idea-pool

2. {user_id} <-> milochen0418 is the

3. {branch_name} <-> master

(your branch_name maybe is main, but not master)

When I push failed, the only thing I need is this one command:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:{user_id}/{project_name}.git

Then I push it again by:

git push -u origin {branch_name}

For the example of my case,

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:milochen0418/open-idea-pool.git
git push -u origin master

It works.

—
By the way, this is the process of creating an SSH key to GitHub account.

You can refer to these two links to do it. The information here supports Mac, Windows, and Linux.

1. Issue on adding SSH key to GitHub
2. Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account

Furthermore, if you want to clone a new project, you can do the following command:

git clone [email protected]:{user_id}/{project_name}.git

You can force your machine to just use SSH instead of HTTPS:

git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

If you’re using macOS and do not find the github.com entry in the KeyChain access:

• Try to do a Git action
• It’ll ask for the user name
• Enter your GitHub user name
• Generate a new key from Personal access tokens
• In the password field, enter this newly generated token value
• Now you can see a new entry of github.com inside KeyChain Access → login

For Mac, go and create your token. You can only see it once. Copy it and store it securely.

Open up Terminal and run: gh auth login

*gh can be installed using Homebrew

Answer the questions. Make sure you pick HTTPS when asked.

Go to Settings → Developer settings → generate a new token if it does not exist.

Or copy the token if it exists.

Then set the token:

git remote set-url origin https://<token>@github.com/<username>/<repo>.git/

First create the token on GitHub:

1. Click on the profile picture and in the menu select Settings
2. Select Developer Settings in the left menu at the bottom
3. Select Personal Access tokens in the left menu (third option)
4. Select Generate new token and follow the next steps.

If you have not installed GitHub CLI, you would not find it in your keychain Access. Therefore you should install it first.

1. Install GitHub CLI for macOS

   brew install gh
   

   For Windows:

   winget install gh
   scoop install gh
   choco install gh
   

2. On the command line, enter gh auth login, follow the prompts, and provide the following answers

   ? What account do you want to log into? GitHub.com

   ? What is your preferred protocol for Git operations? HTTPS

   ? Authenticate Git with your GitHub credentials? Yes

   ? How would you like to authenticate GitHub CLI? Paste an authentication token

3. Paste the token you created on GitHub and press Enter.

Generating a GitHub personal access token (PAT)

1. Log in to your GitHub account and open Settings → Developer Settings
   Personal Access Tokens.
2. Click on Generate New Token.

Do not forget to copy and the token after generation. It is accessible only once.

Windows

1. Open Control Panel → User Accounts → Credential Manager.
2. Now, look for git:https://github.com.
3. Click on Edit.
4. Replace the password with the GitHub Personal Access Token.

MAC

1. Click on Spotlight Icon and search for Keychain Access.
2. Inside Keychain Access, search for github.com.
3. Now, look for the internet password entry for github.com.
4. Update the entry.

Mac users — a simple solution.

Set up the personal access token in GitHub:

Settings → Developer Settings → Personal access token

Open Keychain → type “GitHub”

Change the password to the personal access token.

Try commit/pushing.

Select “Always allow” and business is as usual.

I was using git pull on Linux with a password before.

If that is the case, the only thing you need to do is use token in place of password.

Generate an access token by going to Personal access tokens.

Here is example of git pull

git pull

Username for 'https://github.com': gitusername
Password for 'https://[email protected]': //Then enter generated token

To those using Sourcetree with an existing repository you must update your repository URL like so
https://<your_token>@github.com/username/repo.git

This was taken from this answer.

If you want to clone for the first time:

git clone https://<repository_owner>:<personal_access_token>@github.com/<repository_owner>/<repo>.git

It worked!

After getting the token key as said here:

Create Personal Access Token on GitHub From your GitHub account

go to Settings => Developer Settings => Personal Access Token => Generate
New Token (Give your password) => Fillup the form => click Generate
token => Copy the generated Token (it will be something like
ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjmks4Tzuzgthdvfsrta)

use the following in your terminal:

git clone https://your_username:[email protected]/username/private-repo.git

In Linux, you can generate a new access token in GitHub and directly replace it in place of the password in the ~.git-credentials file.

The password section starts with : and ends with @.

A quick solution for Windows users

Open Credential Manager and just remove the already-saved credentials for Git: https://github.com.

After this step, run the command again for pull/push in the terminal. GitHub will ask to log in with your default browser automatically (make sure you are logged in with GitHub in the default browser).

After successful login, we got this message:

For more help related to this, you can also watch this video.

After getting the token key, you can just skip all steps and go with this:

git clone https://your_username:[email protected]/username/private-repo.git

Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.

Solution

1. Create a GitHub personal access token (PAT) and copy it.

2. For macOS, add it to KeyChain Access under GitHub.

   Spotlight Search → type KeyChain → select KeyChain Access → search for github.com → paste your PAT

   For Windows, add the PAT to Windows credentials for your user.

   Search → type Credential Manager → Add your PAT to github.com

3. If the repository is part of an organization, you will also need to sign in to that organization with your personal access token so that the organization will recognize it. If you’re already signed in, sign out first.

4. git clone as usual 🙂

Android Studio Arctic Fox Solution (Windows 10)

I was authenticated in Android Studio Arctic Fox (latest version) using a personal access token, but still, I was getting this error on August 14, 2021:

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.

I generated a new access token on github.com, removed my GitHub account from Android Studio, and added the account again with the new access token. But still, it was showing the same error.

Reading other solutions on Stack Overflow, I downloaded the GitHub CLI, and added my GitHub account in the Windows command prompt with the access token successfully, and tried to push the repository from Android Studio again, which again failed.

Then following this article, I did the following at the command line:

cd <project-directory>
git remote set-url origin https://<TOKEN>@github.com/<user_name>/<repo_name>.git

I pushed again from Android Studio, and it worked finally!

As a security precaution, GitHub automatically removes personal access tokens that haven’t been used in a year. To provide additional security, we highly recommend adding expiration to your personal access tokens.

Just follow Creating a token.

In three commands:

First create a token as indicated in the official documentation: Creating a personal access token

Then reset the Git credentials

git config --global --unset credential.helper

Clone or pull your repositories:

`git pull` or `git clone`

Then enter the token as your password.

If you want to save your token, you can use:

git config --global credential.helper cache

Run these commands inside your project directory if the project was cloned before 13 Aug 2020:

git remote set-url <remote_name> <remote_url>
git pull

Type your username and personal access token as the password.

For Mac users

Generate a token and set it in the keychain.

This quick video explains it well.

For Windows Users

Just instead of the keychain, you need to set up Credential Manager with the newly generated token.

Here is a quick video for Windows