Remembering your GitHub username or email
Are you signing in to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance for the first time in a while? If so, welcome back! If you can't remember your GitHub Enterprise user account name, you can try these methods for remembering it.
In this article
- GitHub Desktop users
- GitHub Desktop users
- Finding your username in your
user.nameconfiguration - Finding your username in the URL of remote repositories
GitHub Desktop users
- In the GitHub Desktop menu, click Preferences.
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In the Preferences window, verify the following:
- To view your GitHub Enterprise username, click Accounts.
- To view your Git email, click Git. Note that this email is not guaranteed to be your primary GitHub Enterprise email.
GitHub Desktop users
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In the File menu, click Options.
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In the Options window, verify the following:
- To view your GitHub Enterprise username, click Accounts.
- To view your Git email, click Git. Note that this email is not guaranteed to be your primary GitHub Enterprise email.
Finding your username in your user.name configuration
During set up, you may have set your username in Git. If so, you can review the value of this configuration setting:
$ git config user.name
# View the setting
YOUR_USERNAMEFinding your username in the URL of remote repositories
If you have any local copies of personal repositories you have created or forked, you can check the URL of the remote repository.
Tip: This method only works if you have an original repository or your own fork of someone else's repository. If you clone someone else's repository, their username will show instead of yours. Similarly, organization repositories will show the name of the organization instead of a particular user in the remote URL.
$ cd YOUR_REPOSITORY
# Change directories to the initialized Git repository
$ git remote -v
origin https://hostname/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
origin https://hostname/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPOSITORY.git (push)Your user name is what immediately follows the https://[hostname]/.