Login failed due to incorrect login credentials or method

[ovusense]

I have created the SSH key. That works. But a push is failing:

$ git push --set-upstream origin master
Password for 'https://xxxxxxx@bitbucket.org': 
remote: Login failed due to incorrect login credentials or method.
remote: If you are unsure of which login details or login method to use, visit:
remote: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/log-into-or-connect-to-bitbucket-cloud/
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://bitbucket.org/xxxxxxx/repository.git/'

The support docs don't mention this error and if the account password doesn't work what else is there?

Thanks, 

Al

[alpirrie · Accepted solution]

I hadn't created an App Password at Account > Personal settings > App password. Once I had created one of these, and used that password the git push worked.

It might help if pages like https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-an-ssh-key/ had a list of related reading linking to articles like https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/using-app-passwords/.

[J REN]

It helps a lot! Thank you very much!

[Harivignesh J]

Yep, it works. Thanks a lot!

[Willian Tetsuo Kaneta]

Thanks

[malshani_ranchagoda]

It helped, Thanks

[Tanya Kemkar]

it helped, thanks

[Matthew Ferguson]

This is scary.  2 days attempting the SSH key and came across this post and in 15 minutes had SourceTree and CLI running.  

Concerning that the suggested token and ssh key has this problem for some accounts. 

This helped so much @alpirrie ! 

[Moses Thomas]

@ovusense  If you are using SSH, have you configured SSH keys on Bitbucket Application ?

[Matthew Ferguson]

Same problem @ovusense .  I get this after a successful SSH key configuration.  I even ran a successful: 

% ssh -T git@bitbucket.org

% authenticated via ssh key.

 % You can use git to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabled

Did you solve this issue with apps like Fork, SourceTree, etc.? I think there is a SSH problem with running both github and bitbucket that I am not seeing right now. 

[Shelton Kipkoech]

i had the same problem.

to be able to clone using git, you should use app password and not your account password.

note: to get app password, login to your bitbucket account > click settings on top right > click personal bitbucket settiings > on the left naviigation click app password

create app password with relevant permissions, an app password string will be generated for you.

use this app password for your git logins