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Ok, so Here's the scenario,

I had user1 logged in to my terminal for bitbucket account.

I had logged in like 

$ git config --global user.name "user1"
$ git config --global user.email "user1@gmail.com"

I was able to do commit and push perfectly.

Now I had another account on bitbucket with another email id for user2.

So I logged in like: 

$ git config --global user.name "user2"
$ git config --global user.email "user2@gmail.com"

But now when I am doing git push origin master I am getting the below error. 

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://user2@bitbucket.org/user3/test.git/'

So I completely uninstalled git from my Ubuntu 14.04 and installed it again and logged in again. But even then getting the same issue.

How to avoid that error message?

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The user.name and user.email local config have nothing to do with git repos hosting server authentication. It is just for committer/authorship on commits.

If you are using an https url, that means you need to use the BitBucket login and password.
If there is a BitBucket account 'user2', then its BitBucket password will be enough to pass the authentication (he/she will need to be a collaborator in user3 project in order to have the right to push though)

Make sure there is no special character in the password, or you would have to percent-encode it.

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  • I do have ! In my password. Could be this be the issue. Let me check – Suraj Jan 26 '16 at 09:19
  • Instead of ! I should use %21 ?? – Suraj Jan 26 '16 at 09:23
  • @Suraj Not if you type it directly (like, for instance, when you log in to BitBucket). Only if you use it in an url. – VonC Jan 26 '16 at 09:24
  • @Suraj if you use https://user:yourpassword%21@bitbucket.org/users/user3/test.git, then you would encode the password. But first: can you login to BitBucket through https://bitbucket.org/account/signin/?next=/account/ ? (using your password with a regular `!`) – VonC Jan 26 '16 at 09:27
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/101656/discussion-between-suraj-and-vonc). – Suraj Jan 26 '16 at 09:30
  • I am facing the same issue. Can you @VonC, tell me how can I solve this? I cannot read your chat further! – Jayna Tanawala Nov 13 '21 at 04:31
  • @JaynaTanawala That would be best addressed as a separate question, but the general approach these days (as opposed to 2016 when I write this answer) is to use an HTTP access token (https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/personal-access-tokens-939515499.html), as in https://stackoverflow.com/a/68598469/6309 – VonC Nov 13 '21 at 21:53
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My problem was that I was using https instead of ssh, after that change everything worked for me.

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I faced the same problem! Even after providing correct password it showed the same error.

Solution

Step:Just check your pass is correct. if it is OK then check you have the correct permission on that repository. (i got permission problem and solved using the step)

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I had similar issue, in one of my computers. I and was able fix the problem by commenting/removing these lines in the file ~/.gitconfig

[url "https://:@repo.zzz.xxx"]
insteadOf = https://repo.zzz.xxx
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