How to store credentials for two different github accounts?

[GorvGoyl]

I have 2 github accounts (work & personal) for which I want to store credentials (username + password) in my Windows 10 (in secure way).

git config --global credential.helper manager command sets only single username & password which conflicts between personal repo and work repo in my machine. Both repo are cloned using HTTPS.

I want to store and access more than one credentials (username+password) in a machine. Is it possible?

I know SSH is an option but I would like to know the way for HTTPS clone.

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I had also asked this on SO but didn't get proper response. how-to-store-credentials-locally-per-repo

[michaelblyons]

Does useHttpPath help you?

git config --global credential.github.com.useHttpPath true

You'll end up with a login for each repo in GitHub (not each username), but at least you won't have conflicts.

[gouravsamsung]

my expectation is to remember both usernames and password in a secure way. if I use useHttpPath I'm being asked for a password each time.

[whoisj]

@gouravsamsung the credential.useHttpPath is the "correct" way. Another option for GitHub and Bitbucket authorities is to prefix the URL with a username.

Example:
https://account1@github.com and https://account2@github.com should be seen as different accounts by the GCM. You will have to remember, however, to ensure that your repository remote's URL in the expected format: {protocol}://{username}@github.com/{repo}.

For example, when I use the "Clone with HTTPS" button on this repository, GitHub places https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows.git on my clip board. If I want to use an alternate account, I would need to modify that to include my user alias ala https://gitstofj@github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows.git.

[michaelblyons]

@gistofj I must have misunderstood #363. I thought what you said above only worked in Bitbucket.

[whoisj]

@gistofj I must have misunderstood #363. I thought what you said above only worked in Bitbucket.

I may have been too vague, my apologies. The username@ should always work with Bitbucket, in-fact it is basically required by them. The username@ should work with GitHub, because there's no reason it should not - but there is also no guarantee (unless @shiftkey or @haacked wants to make one 😉). Unfortunately, this isn't something Azure DevOps can support at the moment as they've cooped the username@ as a proxy for account@ information.

[shiftkey]

The username@ should work with GitHub, because there's no reason it should not - but there is also no guarantee (unless @shiftkey or @haacked wants to make one 😉).

Yeah, this should work fine (I've seen usage of this in the wild and I don't think we'd break the HTTP world in that way).

[GorvGoyl]

adding username at git repo does work but only for storing username, i still need to input the password each time. As I mentioned before I want to store both username and password so that github won't prompt me for this. thanks.

[whoisj]

@JerryGoyal the GCM does store the username + password... I mean, that's really all it does. Is your system configured correctly?

Can you share the output of git config --list --show-origin ?

[GorvGoyl]

@gistofj sorry for late reply. here's the output:

C:\Users\gourav.goyal>git config --list --show-origin
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       core.symlinks=false
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       core.autocrlf=true
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       core.fscache=true
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       color.diff=auto
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       color.status=auto
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       color.branch=auto
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       color.interactive=true
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       help.format=html
file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       rebase.autosquash=true
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig http.sslcainfo=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig http.sslbackend=openssl
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig filter.lfs.required=true
file:C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/etc/gitconfig core.editor='C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin
file:C:/Users/gourav.goyal/.gitconfig   user.name=gouravsamsung
file:C:/Users/gourav.goyal/.gitconfig   user.email=gourav.goyal@samsung.com
file:C:/Users/gourav.goyal/.gitconfig   credential.github.com.usehttppath=true

[catapultsystemsdev]

FYI: username@github.com/[rest of repo path] doesn't seem to work...

[lriuui0x0]

I have tried that:

1. username@github.com/repo doesn't seem to work
2. git config credential.github.com.username username doesn't seem to work
3. git config credential.useHttpPath true does work, but it uses the entire repository as key, so it's annoying if you have multiple repositories under one account.

[Neutrino-Sunset]

git config credential.useHttpPath true does not work for me.

git config credentials.github.com.useHttpPath returns true

I have credentials already stored for an existing company repository. Those credentials are for a github repository for which 2FA is enabled. The Windows Credential Manager has an entry of the form

git:https://github.com
UserName: PersonalAccessToken
Password: *******

If I now clone another github repo from my personal account when I attempt to push a change to that account using my personal account I don't get prompted for a password, Git instead tries to use the already stored credentials, which fails.

Either this just doesn't work, or there is some additional aspect to the configuration required that is not being made clear.

Even if I edit the PersonalAccessToken so that Username is set to the different user names used by each of the GitHub accounts I'm trying to manipulate it still doesn't work. The only way I can do anything with each account is to delete the PersonalAccessToken each time, which of course completely defeats the point.

Preceding the repo url with the username e.g. https://username@github.com/etc/etc also does not help.

[jeschu1]

@Neutrino-Sunset, please confirm what version of GCM you are on.

An easy way to find this is to set "GCM_TRACE' and do a "git fetch".

[Neutrino-Sunset]

I've installed Git for Windows 2.22.0 from https://gitforwindows.org/ with the option to enable the Git Credential Manager For Windows selected. I've just reinstalled it to make sure I have that option selected. If I run git config credential.helper it returns manager.

But I don't see anything in the install directory that's obviously related to the GCM (not that I have any idea what to look for) and if I run set GCM_TRACE=1 and git fetch I don't see any output at all.