How to restrict non team member from branch pull and push

Question

I have a Bitbucket free account, I have created a private project and a private repository within that project itself. I have created a group of users with some domains say "example.com".  Now when I try to clone this repo on my local machine with the personal email ID - "gmail.com" [which is not part of my team] even though the project and the repo are private I am still able to pull the repo, create new branch, push the changes.

How can I restrict this behavior I want only people with access provided and have an "example.com" domain to be able to access my repo.

Syahrul · Answer

Hi @U P Dave

Interesting, I am leaning this toward your local machine, which has already had the credentials stored. You can use the following commands to generate verbose clone output to verify where the clone credentials were used:

GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 <git command_here>

Look for authentication used from the verbose output. In such cases, for OSX, it's stored in the keychain and for Windows, it's using Credentials manager.

Regards,
Syahrul

U P Dave · Answer

Hi @Syahrul ,

Greetings of the Day,

Thanks a lot for reverting to my question. Yes, I have my personal GitHub account set up with my personal Gmail address. I was working with my personal repo by creating "git config --global user.email - 'my personal gmail address'" and using manager-core as a credential helper. Cloned my personal repo using HTTPS on my local machine and accessed it with PAT created on my personal account.

Now like I said using bitbucket free plan created private Project and private repo within that project. Then I tried to create clone of the repo using HTTPS it did not ask for any credentials I could clone repo, was able to push create branch and push the branch, even though I had not given this Gmail address acccess in the bitbucket.

I hope this clears the scenario.

Syahrul · Answer

G'day, @U P Dave

Welcome to the community!

I want to understand how you attempted to clone using your "Gmail" account. Could you share some additional details? Typically, when cloning via HTTPS or SSH, authentication is done using your username, not your email address.

Therefore, if your username is linked to an account with access to the repository, you can clone without issues. I want to gain a clearer understanding of the process you followed. This will help me identify whether there might be any misconceptions about how permissions function in Bitbucket and assist you better.

Regards,
Syahrul