I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated. I've made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server. Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64. C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call>git push Password: error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog alis@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Also set it