Managing Remotes / Updating credentials from the OSX Keychain Updating credentials from the OSX Keychain You'll need to update your saved username and password in the git-credential-osxkeychain helper if you change your password or username on GitHub. Updating your credentials via Keychain Access In Finder, search for the Keychain Access app. In Keychain Access, search for github.com . Find the "internet password" entry for github.com Edit or delete the entry accordingly. Deleting your credentials via the command line Through the command line, you can use the credential helper directly to erase the keychain entry. To do this, type the following command: git credential-osxkeychain erase host=github.com protocol=https [Press Return] If it's successful, nothing will print out. To test that it works, try and clone a repository from GitHub. If you are prompted for a password, the keychain entry was deleted. ...
