Authentication failed on Academic-kickstart Hugo project

1

Hi all,

I just deployed this theme (Academic theme) using Netlify as described by the docs. The site works and is up.

I then cloned the repository from github to my local machine.

When I tried to make a change locally and push my changes I get an authentication failure. With what credentials do I have to log in?

Doesn’t my default github account have push rights to this repo?

 ➜  git push
Username for 'https://github.com': 
Password for 'https://xxx@github.com':
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/xxx/xxx/'
2

Please show the output of git remote -v

3

Here is the output for git remote -v

➜  git remote -v
origin	https://github.com/Rainymood/datamasters (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/Rainymood/datamasters (push)
4

Edit .git/config. Under [remote "origin"] change:

url = https://github.com/Rainymood/datamasters

to:

url = git@github.com:Rainymood/datamasters.git

See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols

If you’re using HTTP for authenticated pushing, providing your credentials is sometimes more complicated than using keys over SSH.

5

Changed the url

 ➜  vim .git/config

Tried to push

 ➜  git push
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

It doesn’t even ask me to authenticate myself now

6

https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/error-permission-denied-publickey

If that doesn’t lead you in the right direction, please raise a question within the GitHub community: https://github.community.

7

I have fixed the issue by generating a new personal access token (PAT). I have written about this issue here:

Basically, everything works now except for the fact that it keeps prompting me on every push to fill in my password.

I know this has to do with the osx credentials keychain helper which I’m fiddling with now.