gh-pages not overwriting global user when deploying with `user`

[frzyc]

When I deploy using gh-pages, I want to deploy as a user that is not the globally figured user(frzyc), since I don't have access to the repo as my global user. However, I seem to have trouble getting the user overwrite to work, either programmatically, or using the CLI.

in my package.json:

"deploy": "gh-pages -d build --user \"DevTwo <DevTwo@users.noreply.github.com>\" -r https://github.com/DevTwo/pages",

remote: Permission to DevTwo/pages.git denied to frzyc.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/DevTwo/pages/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Or when I try to deploy using code:

var ghpages = require('gh-pages');

ghpages.publish('build', {
  branch: "gh-pages",
  repo: "https://github.com/DevTwo/pages",
  user: {
    name: 'DevTwo',
    email: 'DevTwo@users.noreply.github.com'
  }
}, console.log);

ProcessError: remote: Permission to DevTwo/pages.git denied to frzyc.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/DevTwo/pages/': The requested URL returned error: 403

    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (...\node_modules\gh-pages\lib\git.js:42:16)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1064:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:301:5) {
  code: 128
}

[AriPerkkio]

@frzyc I had the same issue with a fresh new repository. I have multiple older repositories which worked just fine.

I was able to get the deployment working after checking a setting in repository settings from Settings - Actions - General - Workflow permissions, check Read and write permissions and click Save.

If the radio box above is disabled, e.g. in organization repositories, you can defined following in the workflow file:

permissions:
  contents: write