Create a new repo on the command line

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I recently watched the “Starting a Code Base in GitHub” video and I am stuck pushing the repo from my machine to the existing repo on GitHub.

I created a repo on GitHub and followed the steps below:

echo “# code_practice” >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m “first commit”
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/.../code_practice.git
git push -u origin main

When I go to complete the last step I get the following error:

git push -u origin main
remote: Write access to repository not granted.
fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/.../code_practice.git/’: The requested URL returned error: 403

What did I do wrong and what is the fix?

Thanks!

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Did you authenticate via SSH? Connecting to GitHub with SSH - GitHub Docs

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Do I still need to authenticate via SSH if I’m using HTTPS?

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Try the documentation here: About remote repositories - GitHub Docs

HTTPS is fine as well.