Change Git Username to Connect to My Remote Repo

Question

I worked a contract gig recently with a temporary email address and username for git repos. It's over now and the temp username seems to be messing up my old personal repositories in git.

When I try to push origin master

I get:

remote: Permission to <my-repo>.git denied to <wrong-username>.

If I look in git config --list I get the proper username and email - I can't seem to find the location of [wrong-username] and I can't get rid of it. How do I connect back to my remote repository and get rid of this old username that I won't be using in the future?

Answer 1

Did you try the global setup?

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

Answer 2

I found the answer here: Git's famous "ERROR: Permission to .git denied to user"

It's the second answer with five steps. Go to keychain access and delete anything that looks incorrect. That solved my problem.