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Development Tools Introduction to Git GitHub and Other Remote Repositories Pushing Commits to GitHub

Posted by Ridge Christianson
Ridge Christianson
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Requested URL Error

I've tried my github password and now i tried a personal access token and this happened: treehouse:~/workspace/medals$ git push -u origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': TyeCtlm
Password for 'https://TyeCtlm@github.com':
remote: Permission to TyeCtlm/medals.git denied to TyeCtlm.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/TyeCtlm/medals.git/': The
requested URL returned error: 403

1 Answer

Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Hi Ridge Christianson a 403 status code means "Forbidden" which is the result of an unauthorised attempt to request. It would seem your credentials for git are incorrect. Double check that they are correct.

Helpful resource for git config