Permission on project level Bitbucket server

[Yves Mundorff]

We run a Bitbucket Server in our network and want that each Project and the asigned team can manage the on-boarding of users and the rights assignment by themself.

As far as I can tell this is working on Bitbucket Cloud but not on the Server-Version. Is there a way to give the rights to a project to add users (invite by email and ultimately create the user...) to the project on the Bitbucket Server?

[daniele_carcasole · Accepted solution]

Hi Yves,

Bitbucket server uses a different approach to permissions compared to Bitbucket Cloud.

As a project administrator, you will be able to add permissions for the project to existing users using rules explained at Using project permissions.

Still to be able to manage users you will need to have Admin privileges (read more at Global Permissions)

Side note:

Having project admins being able to create new users will expose your instance to situations you might not want to be such as:

• User number exceeding your license count and subsequent lockdown of your server for write operations (so a project admin can cause every other project downtime)
• Possibly creating duplicate users

One possible workaround would be to have a different service able to use the REST API https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/5.9.0/bitbucket-rest.html#idm45328869123232 with forms that will gather the parameters needed to create the user.

Hope this helps

[Ana Retamal · Accepted solution]

Hi Yves! You can assign your users project permissions, but this won't give them the ability to create new users, they'll need to be admins to do that. For more info about project permissions in Bitbucket Server you can read Using project permissions. 

Hope that helps!

Ana