git pushes with wrong user from terminal

Question

I have an issue with git and my terminal.

Here's a gallery to show you my issue : http://imgur.com/a/6RrEY

When I push commits from my terminal, git says I push them with another username, that's a user from my organisation (my company) with no commit at all and it seems it belongs to no one : (check gallery first pic)

But this doesn't happen when I use Github for mac, in the feed I see the commits pushed by myself.

The problem also affects my personal repositories, my terminal says that I don't have the permission to push commits on those repositories (which is obviously wrong) since it tries to push it with this user : (check gallery second pic)

Guess what ? This doesn't happen with Github for mac too.

I changed my computer to a brand new one few days ago, so I reset'ed all my ssh key of github and left only a new one generated by Github for Mac so I don't think that there's some ghost user/ssh key hidden somewhere, this hdd is brand new : (check gallery third pic)

My .gitconfig file is all clear, there's only my credentials : (check gallery fourth pic)

I really don't get it, help, StackOverflow, you're my only hope.

(My apologies for my poor Gimp skills and the Star Wars reference)

EDIT : ssh-add -l only shows the good ssh key created by github for mac and I have only one github account

EDIT2 : ssh -T [e-mail] recognize me as the good user.

EDIT3 : After a few tests it looks like my terminal does the commits with my username, but pushes them with the other one, Github for mac commits and pushes with the good username.This situation happen with every repo I have/make (even new ones).

EDIT4 : In a personal repository git log --pretty="%h %an %ae" shows my good username

EDIT5 : No sign of environment variables that would override my credentials in my env. Even if I try to set those variables with the good credentials problem persists.

EDIT6 : Things work back normally if I force the user in the path of /.git/config of a repository but I don't think that's the good option : http://[e-mail]/USER/REPO.git

EDIT7 : We deleted the git user that pushed the commits for me and this brings another error : remote: Invalid username or password. fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/USER/REPO.git/'

FINAL EDIT : I installed git with homebrew, typed git config --global push.default simple and now it takes my credentials even without forceing the user. That's strange. Thanks everybody for your help, you're great guys !

Answer 1

If you are using MAC, then go to Keychain Access and remove the entry of the user for which you don't want git access.

Answer 2

Despite all the great options given by other users, the only way to fix this was to reinstall git completely and type git config --global push.default simple to rewrite good credentials.

Answer 3

A temporary solution is first run killall ssh-agent then add the ssh keys generated for the account you need to use ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_4shameer

It will help us to work on multiple github account when we will get the error of type ERROR: Permission to user/repo-git.git denied to username.

Answer 4

I solved this problem removing (or renaming to *.bak) the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub file on MacOS High Sierra. Idea from here.

I have custom host redirects in ~/.ssh/config that should be applied but used wrong user before I renamed the two files...

Answer 5

I just had this problem at work. The builtin git that ships with mac or comes when you install xcode caches git credentials in keychain. The fix for me was to:

start keychain access (start spotlight via cmd + space, type keychain, press enter)

Under keychains on the upper left, select "login" Under category on the left, select "passwords"

find the name "github" and delete it.

Answer 6

it looks like my terminal does the commits with my username, but pushes them with the other one

Author and committer name and email (which are important for GitHub) are derived from:

git config user.name
git config user.email

However, as mentioned in git config and git commit-tree, those values can be overridden by environment variables:

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL

So double-check those variables.

Things work back normally if I force the user in the .git/config of a repository but I don't think that's the good option.

But it should be a good solution.
When using an https url, I always specify the user in it to make sure the authentication is done with the right user.

http://[e-mail]/USER/REPO.git