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Bitbucket app password login fails

Tarmo Kuuse

Hi!

I seem to be having trouble authenticating to my Bitbucket repo using App Passwords.

Here's what I did (following https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/06/app-passwords-bitbucket-cloud/)

Enabled 2-factor authentication
Created a test repo with some dummy data
Created an App Password, granted every permission possible
Tried login via git command-line client:
git clone <span class="nolink">https://apppwd_user:apppwd_pass@bitbucket.org/tarmokuuse/testrepo0.git</span>

Cloning into 'Testrepo0'...
remote: Invalid username or password. If you log in via a third party service you must ensure you have an account password set in your account profile.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://apppwd_user:apppwd_pass@bitbucket.org/tarmokuuse/Testrepo0.git/'

Can anyone point out what's wrong here? Regarding the hint about the account password, I am using the Atlassian account which has a password set. I don't believe it's possible to have it any other way...

FYI: I am, in fact, trying to enable submodules in my Bitbucket Pipelines, which seems to require such hacks to work: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39445805. Login fails there in exactly the same way.

Accepted answers

Tarmo Kuuse

Oh, I'm not supposed to use the name of the App Password as the login user, but rather my own user name. That's unexpected.

Thanks for the hints smile

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Alastair Wilkes

Hi Tarmo,

What value are you using for apppwd_user?

Alastair

Tarmo Kuuse

Oh, I'm not supposed to use the name of the App Password as the login user, but rather my own user name. That's unexpected.

Thanks for the hints smile

Alastair Wilkes

Sure thing smile

Karma Tsering Lama

I had an similar issue. In the url make sure you are using ur id and the the system will ask for your password. Problem solved

Tarique Khan_62hx0s

same issue for me, resolved.

unknown

same issue here. That helped me a lot

Soma Chakraborty

Hi,

How do we use app password for git commit and push?

Currently getting follwoing error when trying to commit my changes:

"Because your Atlassian account admin requires single sign-on, you'll need to authenticate with an app password. Create an app password at https://bitbucket.org/account/admin/app-passwords

fatal: unable to access 'https://bitbucket.org/xxx/xxxxxxxxx.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403"

unknown

It depends on where are you trying to accessing from. There are some tools that have specific fields for username and password, other you can inform it in the URL.

I'm not completely sure, but I think it's https://username:password@bitbucket.org/[your_repo] os something like that.

Anyway, the most important thing to note is that, even after creating your app password, you must use your own bitbucket's "username" with your app's "password". That's the trick

Soma Chakraborty

Hi Ronan,

Thanks for your reply.

I was able to push my change the way you suggested using following command:

git push [branch name]https://username:password@bitbucket.org/[my repo].git

Best,

Soma

unknown

Hi Soma,

I'm glad that it helped

Cheers,

Ronan

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