


The analogous process is on Bitbucket site. Once you get the Access token, enter it in as a password together with your GitHub account name to your 3 rd party Git GUI. Here are a couple of screens that will help you create a token at GitHub: You need to generate an “access token.” 2.1.

It is not the GitHub account password they want here. That is not the proper password you are entering here. You are again presented with the same message: “Not authorized”. Then you enter your account name and password. Here is how the same situation looks in SourceTree application: Then you enter your GitHub account name and password. Then you are prompted for the credentials: So, after you try to push, you get a message: I will demo the problem with screens from MeGit, but it will happen with other Git GUI clients. The situation can happen with Git clients SourceTree, GitHub Desktop, MeGit/EGit with remote repositories GitHub and Bitbucket (it does not necessarily happen in all combinations, but I have seen it in several). Typically, that will manifest itself in this way: Git push to GitHub from 3 rd party client results in "Authentication Failed". When using 3 rd party Git GUI, you might have a problem setting authentication.
