error 403: can't push to my github account

Question

I am getting next error:

$ git push -u origin master
remote: Permission to teddyruns/medals.git denied to franciswebdevelopment
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/teddyruns/medals.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

I have checked my global user name and email, and created a new ssh key, but franciswebdevelopment is my old account,

I have no idea why I can't push to my new account,

Does anybody have any idea where I am going wrong?

Did you check you haven't set up an entry in `~/.ssh/config`? — Oliver Baumann, Oct 21 '18 at 16:16
Have you added the SSH key to the SSH agent,and ensured that the public key is on Github? — Alexander Huszagh, Oct 21 '18 at 16:17
Thanks for your answers! How do i get to see the entries in .ssh? — Teddy T, Oct 21 '18 at 16:27
Your remote is configured to use https protocol, you should probably change it to git protocol, if you want to use ssh keys. — Roman, Oct 21 '18 at 16:44

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 04:53

but franciswebdevelopment is my old account

That means you probably have a git crendential helper which has cached the credentials franciswebdevelopment for github.com.

git config credential.helper

If that is the case, remove that entry:

git credential-manager delete https://github.com

Then try again (but not right now, with HTTPS or SSH, because GitHub is experiencing a major outage)

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 04:59

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answered Oct 22 '18 at 04:59

Hamzah Ansari

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I did mention it in my answer, but the issue experienced by the OP is not directly related to that outage: it is a *local* credential caching issue. – VonC Oct 22 '18 at 05:15

error 403: can't push to my github account

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