From 2021-08-13, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add: Create Personal Access Token on GitHub: From your GitHub account, go to Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Token → Generate New Token (Give your password) → Fillup the form → click Generate token It will be something like: ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjmks4Tzuzgthdvfsrta For a Linux: $ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY Username: <type your username>Password: <type your password or personal access token (GitHub)