SBT asks for credentials when creating a project - sbt

Question

I am completely new to Scala and SBT. I have downloaded the .tgz archive for SBT 1.3.2, extracted it and added its bin directory to my PATH on Ubuntu 18.04.
I am following the official Getting Started guide, which gives a command to create a simple project. It is supposed to run like that:
$ sbt new sbt/scala-seed.g8
....
Minimum Scala build.
name [My Something Project]: hello
Template applied in ./hello
Instead, it asks me for credentials:
$ sbt new sbt/scala_seed.g8
[info] Set current project to code (in build file:/home/user/code/)
[info] Set current project to code (in build file:/home/user/code/)
Username:
I have no idea what to enter. I can't even try to guess, since I can only enter one character before it asks for a password. If I enter one character again, I get the username prompt again. This is the output after pressing two keys:
$ sbt new sbt/scala_seed.g8
[info] Set current project to code (in build file:/home/user/code/)
[info] Set current project to code (in build file:/home/user/code/)
Username: Password:
Username:
I just want to setup a basic project. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you get sbt new user/some.g8 asking for the Username: then you know that you have typed the template path e.g. user/some.g8 incorrectly so it doesn't exist as a g8 template.
Please check that you have to correct template path and try again.

Answer 2

Even I got the same error when I tried to create a new project following the instruction from https://docs.scala-lang.org/getting-started/sbt-track/getting-started-with-scala-and-sbt-on-the-command-line.html using sbt cli.
I ran the command as below,
sbt new hw/hello-world.g8
Following the above command I was prompted for suername and password. Then I ran it again as
sbt new scala/hello-world.g8
This time the project was successfully created.
Output:
hello-world.g8
[info] welcome to sbt 1.3.13 (Oracle Corporation Java 1.8.0_261)
[info] set current project to scala (in build file:/C:/scala/)
[info] set current project to scala (in build file:/C:/scala/)
A template to demonstrate a minimal Scala application
name [Hello World template]: hello-world
Template applied in C:\scala\.\hello-world
So the hw in the command "sbt new hw/hello-world.g8" is not correct and it has to be only "sbt new scala/hello-world.g8".

Answer 3

In the first, working example you have scala hyphen seed.
$ sbt new sbt/scala-seed.g8
....
In the second non-working example you have scala underscore seed.
$ sbt new sbt/scala_seed.g8
[info] Set current project to code (in build file:/home/user/code/)
[info] Set current project to code (in build file:/home/user/code/)
Username: