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Cloned GitHub repos ask for a password, while originally created don't
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Mar 15, 202613627 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've just lost a bunch of repositories from my disk, so I've cloned them from GitHub. These are now asking for username and password each time I push something to GitHub. Those that haven't been deleted don't do that. The only solution I've read for getting rid of username/password prompt is genera…
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Fix for: Cloned GitHub repos ask for a password, while originally created don't
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My guess: Your old repositories used SSH remotes ( or prefixes), which used public-key authentication. (In fact, the Github SSH server never asks for a password.) Your new repositories use HTTP remotes ( ), which only support password-based HTTP Bas…
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