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Rishi Malhotra
212 PointsPush to Github Authentication Failure
Hi.
I am on the stage in the Rails Application tutorial about pushing to GitHub. After doing this step: git push -u origin master
It prompts my username. I then enter my username and then it prompts for my password. For some reason, Terminal (I am on a Mac) does not allow me to type any letters. If I try to push any button, nothing happens. So then when I hit enter, I get an 'Authentication Failed' notice. How can I just enter my password? Thank you
3 Answers
Yves Soete
Courses Plus Student 2,402 PointsTry the mac app. http://mac.github.com
Did you enabled the keychain access as described by github for mac pushing ?
Philipp Antar
7,216 PointsYou don't get to see your password, because Terminal hides it from view. You'll have to type in your password without visual reference and then press enter. If you entered it correctly, the authentication should work!
This behaviour is meant to prevent other people from seeing your password by standing behind you.
Rishi Malhotra
212 Points@Yves I can't download the Mac app because I have OSX 10.6. I have emailed Github to see if I can download it there.
@Philipp: This did work, but then I got another error that said "src refspec master does not match any" and "failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/rishimalhotra/treebook.git'"
Thank you!