Trying to clone llama3 repo asks for password

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executing git clone https://@huggingface.co/facebook/llama-3 ./llama3_model to download asks for password. When I type in, I get the error "remote: Password authentication in git is no longer supported. You must use a user access token or an SSH key instead. See Deprecation of Git Authentication using password
fatal: Authentication failed for ‘https://huggingface.co/facebook/llama-3/’
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hi @eilangko

I couldn’t find facebook/llama-3 model in Hugging Face.

You might want to clone meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B.

Since it’s a gated repository, you should get access to the model. Please check

and

Please check the following for authentication:

You can verify with huggingface-cli whoami.

Last one: give permissions for relevant repo:

Edit permissions - > Repositories permissions → Search for repos

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Thank you.

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I requested access and got it immediately, but to meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B, but to a model called meta-llama/Meta-Llama-Guard-2-8B. Why a different model?