Credential Update After Password Change

Quick note on updating your credentials after you change your password on GitHub.

Steps

• search for keychain access in spotlight

• delete the old github credentials

• clone and adjust a repo

• trigger the credential helper

• push changes to repo

Search for “keychain access” in spotlight.

Enter “github” into the search bar. Delete all github password entries.

Clone a repo and make some changes.

cd Desktop

git clone https://github.com/Cdishop/website.git

cd website

echo "some change" >> README.md

Activate keychain.

git credential-osxkeychain

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

Trigger a username/password entry by pushing to remote.

git add .

git commit -m "commit for keychain change"

git push -u origin master

[enter credentials]

git push

Route 2 - No Keychain

You may not see a saved password in your keychain. If that’s the case, then you can allow your push to fail and then reset your credentials in the terminal.

Clone, adjust, and then push a repository. After pushing, you will see a “fatal” error.

Enter

git config --global user.email "Your email"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Then push again. You will be asked for a username and password. All subsequent repository pushes should then be automatic.

Bo\(^2\)m =)