Can clone and push from one computer but not another. Same account

[Denis-Kazakov]

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I have personal repos and I am also a member of an organization, but have different experiences with my organization's repos depending on the computer I use, though account is the same.

In fact, I tried four computers: two with Windows and two with Linux Mint.

On both Windows machines, I can create repos, clone them, push to them with command line or GUI tool, without any authentication hassle. No requests for tokens or anything.

On Linux machines, I can log in to my GitHub account, visit all public and private repose, view any files in the organization's repos but can only clone and push to my personal repos. I created a token with access to all repositories and write and read permission for Contents, but it does not help. What I get is:
remote: Write access to repository not granted. fatal: unable to access ...: The requested URL returned error: 403

I was able to push my PyCharm projects to the organizations repos somehow. I think with browser authentication.

[lemorage]

Try to use SSH Auth on linux machines.

1. Generate an SSH key on the Linux machine:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

• Save it to the default location (~/.ssh/id_rsa) or a custom path.

2. Add the public key to GitHub:

• Copy the public key:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Go to GitHub > Settings > SSH and GPG keys > New SSH key.
• Paste the public key and save.

3. Update your Git remote URL to use SSH:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:organization/repo.git

4. Test the SSH connection:

ssh -T git@github.com

You should see a message confirming your access.

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Since pushing via PyCharm is possible, maybe you could also try to use the same mechanism on your linux machines:

1. Check PyCharm’s Git settings:

• Go to Settings > Version Control > Git.
• Check if it’s using a token or SSH for authentication.

2. Replicate this configuration in your terminal Git setup:

• If PyCharm uses an SSH key, ensure the key is added to your SSH agent:

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

[Denis-Kazakov]

Thank you! It worked.
I am still puzzled by cloning with HTTPS but at least can do it with SSH.