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Pushing to new GitHub organisations gets 403 error

I've encountered a recent problem, it applies to any new GitHub organisations I create.

I am admin for two fairly mature GitHub organisations. I can create repos within them, and everything "just works". (SmartGit, & CLI Git, OSX).

But, if I create a new organisation, I can't Push to it, I get a 403 error:

$ git push 
remote: Permission to [org]/[repo].git denied to [username].
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/[org]/[repo].git/': 
  The requested URL returned error: 403
$

Steps to reproduce:

  1. create organisation
  2. create repo within organisation
  3. make text edit via GitHub
  4. clone repo
  5. make text change
  6. add/commit/push > 403 error reported

I can make (& commit) changes via the GitHub.com web-page interface, but I can't push them from my local repo.

Note: From a different PC I can push to repos in existing organisations, but not the new ones. The other PC was still a Mac though, so it may be keychain related. Ok, I've tested it from a Windows VM, and it still fails. So, it does look like something at the GitHub end.

Any suggestions?

Solution

  • I installed GitKraken in a VM and in the GitHub authorisation process I had to indicate when organisations it could access. The new repo had a red Cross against it. I selected it, to allow GitKraken access to that organisation. GitKraken was then able to push to the new repo.

    I then received an email telling me the GitHub authorisation had been added. It included a link to this page https://github.com/settings/connections/applications/

    From that page I was able to view authorised OAuth apps. SmartGit (my normal Git client was listed). When I went into the page for that app, I saw it wasn't allowed access to my new organisation. I authorised access.

    From that point on, I was able to push from either SmartGit or the command-line.