Change remote repository credentials (authentication) on Intellij IDEA 14

Question

I recently changed my Bitbucket password for security reasons. However, IntelliJ didn't update my repository to the new credentials, so it stops me from pulling/pushing anything to my repository. I am not using any plugins for this, just the integrated VCS operations inside the IDE.

Every time I pull/push, this pops out:

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://momothereal:[email protected]/team/repo.git/

Where xxxxxxxxxxxx is my old password. I think changing this remote address with the correct password would fix it, though I cannot find where to do so.

Answer 1

The easiest of all the above ways is to:

1. Go to Settings>>Appearance & Behavior>>System Settings>>Passwords
2. Change the setting to not store passwords at all
3. Invalidate and restart IntelliJ
4. Go to Settings>>Version Control>>Git>>SSH executable: Build-in
5. Do a fetch/pull operation
6. Enter the password when prompted
7. Again go to Settings>>Appearance & Behavior>>System Settings>>Passwords
8. This time select store passwords on disk(protected with master password)

Voila!

Note that this will not work if your password is in your URL itself. If that is the case then you need to follow the steps given by @moleksyuk here

You also choose to use the credentials helper option in IntelliJ to achieve similar functionality as suggested by Ramesh here

Answer 2

After trying several answers, I was finally able to solve this issue (on window 10),

>git fetch
remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
fatal: Authentication failed for 'http://gitlab.abc.net/V4/VH.git/'

By updating the password stored in Git Credential Manger for Windows(GCM),

Control Panel->User Accounts -> Windows Credentials

Answer 3

There is an option to clear passwords

Answer 4

Doing the following steps helped in my case:

1) open Settings 2) go to Git and Uncheck "Use credential helper" checkbox 3) Do git pull 4) Enter password in the pop up dialog

Git operations will now work fine in IntelliJ!

Answer 5

Linux users (tested on ubuntu 14.04)

by default (on linux and mac) pycharm uses the OS's password manager. To access the passwords on ubuntu open the program "Passwords and Keys".

Once open filter on "idea" and edit the relevant passwords.

No need to restart pycharm for me.
Using pycharm 17.2

Answer 6

This worked for me on Intellij 12:

Open settings -> passwords, select "Do not remember passwords" and apply/ok.

Do your VCS fetch/update/push/whatever and it should ask you for a password.

Check remember password and OK, it should do the VCS thing correctly.

Go back to settings -> passwords and switch it back to "Remember on disk", then apply/ok.

Answer 7

1. Go to [project]/.git directory.
2. Open for edit 'config' file.
3. In '[remote "origin"]' section find 'url' property and replace your old password with new one.
4. Press Ctrl+T in Intellij IDEA to update project.

Answer 8

In Intellinj IDEA 14, we can change the Git password by the following steps:

From the menu bar :

1. Select File -> Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> System Settings .

2. Choose Passwords.

3. Click the 'Master Password' under 'Disk storage protection'.

4. In the Password field, enter your old password. Enter your new password in the subsequent fields.

5. Now the master password will be changed.

Answer 9

For the record, if you've already configured Git on your terminal, there's an option in preferences to use native Git rather than the built-in (bundled) one.

Answer 10

For Mac users this could also be helpful:

Credentials are stored in Keychain Access.app. You can just change them there.

Answer 11

Go to VCS>Git>Remotes then remove your remote url from the list and add again. Git will ask for a password after next git operation (push, pull, etc). NOTE: Don't forget to specify username in url or you will get auth error.

Answer 12

The following approach worked for me:

Create a new personal access token in GitHub and configure the connection in IntelliJ as per link: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/github.html

Then, on IntelliJ, Settings-Version Control-Git screen, unclick the "Use credential helper" option.

Then do an restart with cache invalidation (File - Invalidate Caches / Restart - Invalidate and Restart)

Answer 13

On Windows 10 go to:

Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager

Under Generic Credentials find your repository URL, use Edit to change your password.

After these steps, a pull should work correctly.

Answer 14

The steps resolved issue for me in Windows

1. Go to Control Panel

2. Search for "Credentials"

3. Select Windows Credentials

4. Select github credentials from the list

5. Select edit and update your password then restart Intellij

Answer 15

In my case, The error disappear when i checked the 'use credential helper' option in idea git setting.

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Answer 16

You can change your password from settings screen (Ctrl + Alt + S by default) as attached screenshot. After clearing, on the firts remote operation (like pull/push, etc.) it'll ask you your credentials)

IMPORTANT: Take a copy of the file before this operation.

Answer 17

For MACOS users

if you see credentials failed but you are sure that is is working previously then:

probably you made a software update to the system. System uses git bundled with xcode. its better to open Xcode and click install extra components on startup of xcode. it will say installing components. when you accept the license agreement if will start working again.

in short:

open Xcode, install additional components. accept user licence agreement.

on Xcode updates this step should be repeated.

Answer 18

In my case I have cloned a project from GitLab to develop it. I did couple of commits too. But suddenly I had to change the access token to download another project. After that I couldn't do anything related to git in CLION. So what moleksyuk has said is true.

close IDE > go to your local repo > go to .git directory (show if it is hidden already) > open the config file with a editor > In there,

[remote "origin"] url = https://{yourname:access_token}@gitlab.yourorganization.com/1stdir/2nddir/your_project.git

fetch = +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/

You have to replace existing name and access token with the new ones.

looks like this(https://Janith:[email protected]/1stdir/2nddir/your_project.git)

save > open IDE and do the git action.

Answer 19

Recently Bitbucket has stopped supporting user/pass git https integration. So I could no longer pull/fetch.

Turns out that it wasn't necessary to change the GIT Username or "authentication scheme"(from UserCredentials to Token).

All I had to is:

• Please grab an app password (or generate on via Bitbucket Web UI), and use it to authenticate.
• Use your Bitbucket username as a login, and app password as a password.

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360003444939/comments/360000461679

Answer 20

I needed to change my user name and password in Intellij Did it by

preferences -> version control -> GitHub

There you can change user name and password.

Answer 21

For Mac User Please Go to As Below:

(First of all you must have installed bitbucket plugin)

Android Studio -> Preference -> Other Settings -> Bitbucket

Now change your password and click on Test for verify it. Will also able to add SSH Key for login.

Also its depend on which plugin you used. Some have direct like

Android Studio -> Preference -> Bitbucket linky

Answer 22

In my case, I got a CAPTCHA error. If you get that, first logout/login to Bitbucket, Github, .... on the website and enter the required captcha.

After that, try again from intellij and it should prompt for another password.

Answer 23

This is how I solved it on Windows. I have git installed separately, and Idea just picks git's options automatically (Default Idea config, as I would get from clean installer).

Open the project in the command line. Make some changes there. And commit and push files via git which is installed on my machine. During push it will open a windows asking me to enter username and password. After that, when I make a commit-push from idea, it will simply work.

Answer 24

None of above worked for me. Using Android Studio 3.5 Beta 4. I even selected "do not save, forget passwords after restart" in file>settings>appearance & behavior>System settings>password

So What I did.

VCS>git>remotes

• remove the repo and add again.
• will ask for credentials.
• then try git fetch in terminal.
• Will prompt for password.
• Issue fixed. :D

Answer 25

git credential-manager clear Target Url: https://bitbucketxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.git

Answer 26

On Windows, just remove the remote repository (Git -> manage remotes ...) and add it again. you will be prompted to enter username and the new password.

Answer 27

Steps to change git remote username/password

• Go to Control Panel
• Search for Credential Manager
• Click on Windows Credentials
• In Generic Credential section ,there would be git url, update username and password

Answer 28

I had to remove it from the git credential manager. After executing

git config --global --unset credential.helper

the password prompt came back @ IntelliJ 2022.2

Answer 29

1. Close all instances of IntelliJ
2. Start a new session of intelliJ
3. Enter "git pull" command in intelliJ terminal and it prompts for userId/password.

[email protected]

Answer 30

IN Android Studio 2.3

1. Open Setting (CTRL+ALT+S)
2. Select Other Settings (at the end)
3. select Bitbucket

Here you can change your new Password or User