Git – remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied fatal: Authentication failed

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I am using git-lab.
I am facing an error while using git pull/push/clone command:

remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied fatal: Authentication failed for
'https://gitlab.com/myname/myproject'

I am facing this problem after git config --global --unset credential.helper.

Can anyone help me to come out of this problem?

Do I need to do any proxy settings? (is this firewall related issue?)

I am struct and I am not able to get working solution for this.

Best Answer

I tried many solutions listed in other similar questions , including the one mentioned above but it did not work me. what did work for me is the below way.

Go to your project directory and find for .git folder which will hidden by default.
Enter that and find for a config file and open with text editor and make changes to its token in the URL key something like below

[remote "origin"]

url = https://gitlab-ci-token:<token>@<repository-URL>

In my case the token had expired which one can easily generate in the settings -> Access token->Create a token.

Copy paste this token to your config file in .git folder and Restart your IDE for changes to reflect.

Hope this helps!!!

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The problem is that you do not have any of Certification Authority certificates installed on your system. And these certs cannot be installed with cygwin's setup.exe.

Update: Install Net/ca-certificates package in cygwin (thanks dirkjot)

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Actually install root certificates. Curl guys extracted for you certificates from Mozilla.

cacert.pem file is what you are looking for. This file contains > 250 CA certs (don't know how to trust this number of ppl). You need to download this file, split it to individual certificates put them to /usr/ssl/certs (your CApath) and index them.

Here is how to do it. With cygwin setup.exe install curl and openssl packages execute:
```
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$ c_rehash
```
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Ignore SSL certificate verification.

WARNING: Disabling SSL certificate verification has security implications. Without verification of the authenticity of SSL/HTTPS connections, a malicious attacker can impersonate a trusted endpoint (such as GitHub or some other remote Git host), and you'll be vulnerable to a Man-in-the-Middle Attack. Be sure you fully understand the security issues and your threat model before using this as a solution.
```
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```

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