Account A signed in everywhere, commit is assigned to account B. How to prevent this?

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(This is the first time I post here, so I hope I didn’t pick the wrong category.)

My main GitHub account I use for work is account A. I am currently working on a repository that belongs to an organization.
I have another GitHub account, B (a garbage account), that I needed to access at some point (in browser and in Visual Studio).
Account A is part of organization but account B is not.

In my main browsers, I am now only logged to account A in one browser and not logged to GitHub in other browser.
In GitHub desktop (which I don’t use much), I am connected to account A.
In Visual Studio I am not connected to account B anymore (I don’t think any account is connected there at the moment).
In Visual Studio Code, I am connected to account A.

Today, I tried to commit changes using Visual Studio Code, but initially “Git repository was not found.” I solved this following microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github#3109 . I create a user token on account A and included it in in .git\config .

This solved the issue, the commit was committed.

But, though I was logged in to account A everywhere, using a token generated by account A, and account B not being part of the organization, the commit ended up being signed by account B.

How can I make sure that account B doesn’t show up again unless I actually need it?

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Solution found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60977110/vs-code-uses-wrong-github-account-to-push-commits

After looking for answers and trying a lot of them, The one that worked for me:

'Delete C:\Users\USER_NAME.gitconfig file
Set your username: git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
Set your email address: git config --global user.email "MY_NAME@example.com'
by user "Arsh Shaikh" on StackOverflow.