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Hey I am having problems trying to push to my git repository. I am getting this error:-

remote: Permission to PLSV/Digital-Treasure.git denied to PLSV-GIBLIB. fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/PLSV/Digital-Treasure.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403.

This is because I have not given access rights to this user. But that is not the problem at hand.

I have 2 user accounts, PLSV and PLSV-GIBLIB. I want only the 1st user name i.e. the former to have access as the email account for the second i.e. the latter has, for some reason become invalid (I want to push to my repository using the account associated with PLSV. So I have tried to make changes in the git configurations using git config command in order to get rid of the error, but I do not know what is going wrong. Can someone help me out?

Here are the details from my git config --list command :

core.excludesfile=~/.gitignore core.legacyheaders=false core.quotepath=false core.pager=less -r mergetool.keepbackup=true push.default=simple color.ui=auto color.interactive=auto repack.usedeltabaseoffset=true alias.s=status alias.a=!git add . && git status alias.au=!git add -u . && git status alias.aa=!git add . && git add -u . && git status alias.c=commit alias.cm=commit -m alias.ca=commit --amend alias.ac=!git add . && git commit alias.acm=!git add . && git commit -m alias.l=log --graph --all --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%C(cyan)%d%Creset %s %C(white)- %an, %ar%Creset' alias.ll=log --stat --abbrev-commit alias.lg=log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%C(bold white)%h%Creset -%C(bold green)%d%Creset %s %C(bold green)(%cr)%Creset %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative alias.llg=log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%C(bold white)%H %d%Creset%n%s%n%+b%C(bold blue)%an <%ae>%Creset %C(bold green)%cr (%ci)' --abbrev-commit alias.d=diff alias.master=checkout master alias.spull=svn rebase alias.spush=svn dcommit alias.alias=!git config --list | grep 'alias\.' | sed 's/alias\.\([^=]*\)=\(.*\)/\1\ => \2/' | sort include.path=~/.gitcinclude include.path=.githubconfig include.path=.gitcredential diff.exif.textconv=exif credential.helper=osxkeychain core.user=PLSV [email protected] core.name=PLSV core.excludesfile=/Users/pavan7vasan/.gitignore_global user.name=PLSV [email protected] difftool.sourcetree.cmd=opendiff "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" difftool.sourcetree.path=mergetool.sourcetree.cmd=/Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/opendiff-w.sh "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" -ancestor "$BASE" -merge "$MERGED" mergetool.sourcetree.trustexitcode=true core.repositoryformatversion=0 core.filemode=true core.bare=false core.logallrefupdates=true core.ignorecase=true core.precomposeunicode=true core.user=PLSV [email protected] core.name=PLSV remote.origin.url=https://github.com/PLSV/Digital-Treasure.git remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* branch.master.remote=origin branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master 

Please let me know if there are other details that are needed

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I want to push to my repository using the account associated with PLSV.

Note that this has nothing to do with the user.name/user.email configuration: those are settings used when creating commits, not when authenticating to a remote Git repo hosting service like GitHub.

One simple way to make sure you are using the right account when pushing is to embed the account name in the remote origin https url:

git remote set-url origin https://[email protected]/PLSV/Digital-Treasure.git ^^^^^ 

That way, each time you are pushing to that remote repo, it will ask for the account PLSV's password.

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@NishanthSeshadri Great! I do that (embedding the username in the url) because I have a credential helper (stackoverflow.com/a/6031266/6309), and a credential helper needs to know for which account it needs to provide a password.

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