Changing password in Source Tree 1.6.1 (Mac 13)
Asked by Julia Mazii:

I have changed my password in [github.com](http://github.com). And now I am not availible to use Source Tree. It ask me to require my password. I require it but message appear again and again. Please describe how can i change password also in Source Tree to make it the same as on github.com?


Answers:
author: Jeff Thomas
body: 1. Open the **Hosted Repositories** window by clicking View \> Show Hosted Repositories or Command + Shift + H.
2. Click **Edit Accounts**
3. Double-click on your GitHub account
4. Click **Set Password**

In Sourcetree 3.0 on macOS the account passwords can be updated by doing the following:

1. From the menu bar, select **Sourcetree** then **Preferences** or ? + ,
2. Click on the **Accounts** tab

All accounts will be listed here and can be added, removed, or updated.

comments: author: Julia Mazii
body: Thanks a lot!!!


author: Janin Vann
body: This saved the day! I had to go to help to find hosted repositories, but I was able to delete the old one, make the new one the default, and voila! Thank you!


author: Ray Crawford
body: Okay, I'm answering this because it was just SUCH a nightmare to figure this out.

Using SourceTree 1.6.20.0 on Windows, password based authentication to GitHub kept failing. After adding and delete several times and pushing and pulling via the terminal to no avail, I finally went digging in the file system knowing things were cached somewhere... This is after going View =\> Show Hosted Repositories and reseting my password multiple times.

I don't know exactly what did it but between clearing out:

\~\\AppData\\Local\\Atlassian\\SourceTree\\passwd

\~\\AppData\\Local\\Atlassian\\SourceTree\\userhosts

something actually made it so I could reset my credentials.

Hope this helps someone.

comments: author: Andreas Manthey
body: Thanks Ray, this actually helped resolving the issue!


author: ansonwoody
body: I am using self hosted gitlab and having the issue of not being able to change the incorrect username.

I tried the solution provided by [@Ray Crawford](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/636487) once but did not get it work. One week later I found this post again and gave it a try. It suddenly works!

The only different thing i did was deleting all the logins including the bitbucket (I have one). I found I could not delete the problematic one but I just tried to delete each record several times before removing the passwd and userhosts files in the AppData.

Sourcetree version: 2.1.10


author: Rishikesh Pimpale
body: I restarted SourceTree (v 2.1.11.0) after deleting the passwd file and was prompted to enter the password.


author: Radek Pilmaier
body: Deleting from \~\\AppData\\Local\\Atlassian\\SourceTree\\passwd helped to solve my issue with stored remote repository password, that has changed. Thanks!


author: Dipesh Kumar
body: Thanks,

It works for me.


author: TISHA P P
body: Thanks a lot


author: jjimenezs
body: Thanks Radek


author: Micah Bakan
body: I cant find AppData, I am on a mac, is there an equivalent file for apple users


author: srgoteti
body: On a Mac, if you are using system authentication try deleting your userfile from \~/Library/Application Support/SourceTree

This worked for me

comments: author: Andrzej
body: **This worked for me!**   
Today I've lost about 3-4 hour for an authentication problem. Tried more than dozen hints from many pages. Seeing so many hints and users it's obvious how fragile and troublesome this component is.

I have similar problem with authentication every month or two but untill today I had a golden solution for this (git config credential.helper store) but it stopped working.

After deleting a file \<user.name\>@STAuth-bitbucket.org and entering password in SourceTree now I returned to normal work! :) But 3-4 hours are not mine anymore, great :(


author: Jakub
body: Worked for me as well, it is really a shame I had to spent time digging into it. Should be hassle free process.


author: Pawel Trauth
body: Two years later this is still an issue


author: Jan Molnar
body: To store the password for a self hosted git repository, open terminal and do a

```
git pull
```

in one of your repositories. After you provided the login info it is stored in the keychain and thus available to SourceTree.

Please build this functionality directly into the SourceTree App.

Thanks!


author: Mario Hofer
body: I access a company git repository and have to enter my password every time I communicate with the server (Fetch, Pull, Push, etc.).

Is there a way to do this similar? When I click Cmd+Shift+H there are no accounts listed.

Thanks in advance.


author: Narasimha Rao
body: SourceTree Version -- 4.1.0

-- Go to the specific path on MAC --- \~/Library/Application Support/SourceTree

-- Delete the specified file and in this case I renamed to some Junk for privacy reasons

![Screen Shot 2021-04-25 at 11.45.12 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/140336i1EEB3DE61A62A915/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2021-04-25 at 11.45.12 AM.png")

-- ![Screen Shot 2021-04-25 at 11.46.48 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/140337i1592C4824F7FF7A3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2021-04-25 at 11.46.48 AM.png")

![Screen Shot 2021-04-25 at 11.50.21 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/140338iE212704F8EBBB893/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2021-04-25 at 11.50.21 AM.png")


author: andrew-benson
body: Sourcetree v3.0 on macOS

1. From the menu bar, select **Sourcetree** then **Preferences** or ? + ,
2. **Advanced** tab on far right
3. Select from the menu, the stored credentials for the host you are using
4. Select **Remove**
5. Try to push your code again and it will ask you for your username and credentials

![Screenshot 2020-04-22 at 14.35.18.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/91679iF9009E4DD963CF23/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2020-04-22 at 14.35.18.png")


author: Jeff Thomas
body: In Sourcetree 3.0 on macOS the account passwords can be updated by doing the following:

1. From the menu bar, select **Sourcetree** then **Preferences** or ? + ,
2. Click on the **Accounts** tab

All accounts will be listed here and can be added, removed, or updated.


author: requiredaccount
body: This answer is extremely old and no longer valid, yet it is the first result in Google and I am finding it impossible to locate the correct answer for the current version of Source Tree. Is there way for the community to make current answers easier to find?

comments: author: Jeff Thomas
body: [@requiredaccount](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2318002) I updated my original answer to include the steps for Sourcetree 3.0 on macOS.


author: Shivaprasad Narayanan
body: The way it worked for me is to to to Credential Manager. Use the following steps:

Step 1: Go to Run on windows and type Manage Windows Credentials

Step 2: You will see an entry for gitlab. Expand that entry and change your password

Step 3: Issue a pull request


author: softmaxsg
body: Why not to store passwords there automatically instead of forcing users to add accounts threre manually? In latest app version I should add accounts there manually.


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