Change remote repository credentials (authentication) on Intellij IDEA 14

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:xxxxxxxxxxxx@bitbucket.org/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.

MozenRath

The easiest of all the above ways is to:

Go to Settings>>Appearance & Behavior>>System Settings>>Passwords
Change the setting to not store passwords at all
Invalidate and restart IntelliJ
Go to Settings>>Version Control>>Git>>SSH executable: Build-in
Do a fetch/pull operation
Enter the password when prompted
Again go to Settings>>Appearance & Behavior>>System Settings>>Passwords
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

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

There is an option to clear passwords

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

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.

C. Natesh

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

From the menu bar :

Select File -> Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> System Settings .
Choose Passwords.
Click the 'Master Password' under 'Disk storage protection'.
In the Password field, enter your old password. Enter your new password in the subsequent fields.
Now the master password will be changed.

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

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.

For Mac users this could also be helpful:

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ompoenents. accept user licence agreement

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