BitBucket - Show contact info on access denied page?

[Ryan Grawin]

Is it possible to display BitBucket repository admin contact info (e-mail address) on the access denied page?

By default users get an "Access is Denied" message with a 401 skull and crossbones. It would be useful to see who to e-mail to get added to the repo. This is for a self-hosted Enterprise/Server instance.

Sample screen shot:

Thanks,
Ryan

[Julius Davies _bit-booster_com_ · Accepted solution]

The official answer, as with all things involving computers, is:  yes, it's possible.

But it's not easy - at least not as far as I can tell.

You would need to develop a custom plugin that binds to the "bitbucket.page.errors" web resource context.  There's a little more information here:  https://developer.atlassian.com/server/bitbucket/reference/web-resource-contexts/

If you can find my email address, send me a note, I might be able to put something together for you - or at least help get you started.

(Do you have any experience writing custom Bitbucket plugins?)

[Ryan Grawin]

Thanks for the info. I have no experience writing Bitbucket plugins. I was hoping there was a setting somewhere to enable this behavior.

I'm not sure how self-hosted Bitbucket is usually setup, but at my company by default most projects are locked down. If you need access you somehow need to find out who the admin(s) are.

[Julius Davies _bit-booster_com_]

Even determining which admin to put in a banner would be tricky.  There is a 3-level hierarchy of admins in Bitbucket Server:  repo-admins, project-admins, and global-admins.  Any one of those could grant you read or read/write access to a given repository.

In a large company the global admins would probably NOT want to be on the  banner you are imagining - could turn into a couple emails-per-day !