Where is my remote git repository password stored on the local machine?
In my case git config credential.helper
was empty (local and global both). Turns out the credentials were stored in KWallet. Those are found in KWalletManager under ksshaskpass (even though I am using HTTPS auth for this particular repo) under "Passwords".
if $ git config credential.helper
returns manager
, the password is stored in the windows credential manager, if it returns store
, password is stored in a .git-credentials
file in the user folder.
sudo cat ~/.git-credentials
If you have saved credentials locally, will yieldhttps://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD_OR_TOKEN_IN_USE>@github.com
With the default configuration of git on windows, this is stored in Windows under: control panel
=> User
=> Credential manager
.
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