How to solve "Too many invalid password attempts" error, even when using SSH

Question

Since a couple of weeks I can effectively not use SourceTree anymore.

Always when pushing and pulling I get the following message:

remote: Too many invalid password attempts. Log in at https://id.atlassian.com/ to restore access.

fatal: unable to access 'https://REDACTED@bitbucket.org/REDACTED.git/': SSLRead() return error -9806

When I reconnect my account this problem is gone for about 5 minutes, then it returns. So I though I'd be smart and use SSH with a key pair. But even though I have now set the account in SourceTree to use SSH with key pair I still get this exact same error. Of course I also tried the login at atlassian.

I use SourceTree version 2.7.3, with the embedded git version 2.16.2, on Mac OS 10.11.6.

I hope someone know whats up. I'm even more confused why SourceTree still tries to use https when I have set it to SSH.

I can also still push/pull via the command line.

Thanks for your help!

Ana Retamal · Answer

So glad to hear that! Have a good day :)

Ana

DDreher · Answer

I have now used the beta for two weeks and I have not yet encountered this error anymore.

So the fix you've implemented works for me :)

Also I did not get any 403 errors.

Thanks you're an awesome team&company!

Manju · Answer

Please check the remote URL for the repository. It looks like your account is ssh while the remote URL is https.