How should I use an app password in Windows?

[George Kazantzidis]

Dear Community of Bitbucket.

I have just created a new APP password for my Bitbucket account. I am using a windows device and I am slightly confused. How should I use this password? Should I worry about the windows credential manager ? Also, how can I pass this app password to a git client on windows.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards, George

[Pramodh M · Accepted solution]

Hi @George Kazantzidis 

Welcome to the community 🙂

Yes, if you could just remove the old credentials and configure the new authentication method using app password that will be better

Please find the ref here

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/app-passwords

After removing the credentials, just clone the repo, the authentication will be interactive!!

Let me know if you have any queries

Thanks,

Pramodh

[George Kazantzidis]

Dear Pramodh,

Thank you very much for your reply. Indeed that was very helpful for me.

I now know how to use the APP password when I create a new repository.

However, I still have one question.  How can I update the password when I already have an existing clone of the repository. Should I delete my local repository and clone it again? Is there a way to "update" this authentication procedure without cloning again my local repository?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

George