How can I solve "fatal: Invalid credentials" error when pushing to Bitbucket?

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My Bitbucket password is correct because I can easily log in with this password. When I try to push a project or file to Bitbucket it shows "Invalid credentials error".

git push -u origin master

fatal: Invalid credentials
Password for 'https://username@bitbucket.org':
remote: Bitbucket Cloud recently stopped supporting account passwords for Git authentication.
remote: See our community post for more details: https://atlassian.community/t5/x/x/ba-p/1948231
remote: App passwords are recommended for most use cases and can be created in your Personal settings:
remote: https://bitbucket.org/account/settings/app-passwords/
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://bitbucket.org/username/demo.git/'

How can I solve this issue?

score 242 · Answer 1 · edited May 01 '23 at 14:05

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When prompted to log in, use your username, but instead of your usual account password, use the app password:

To get the app password

Go to the bitbucket.org website and log in
From your gear in the upper right, and click Personal Bitbucket settings
Click App passwords under Access management
Click Create app password
Give the app password sufficient rights (probably write on the repo at a minimum), and a label related to the application that will use the password
Don't forget to save that password

edited May 01 '23 at 14:05

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answered Mar 09 '22 at 03:46

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[MacOS] If you still facing issue after above steps, try cloning project again. – Faisal Hassan Mar 10 '22 at 07:43
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[Windows] you can remove previous bitbucket token credentials stored in your machine using CREDENTIAL MANAGER in windows – Supun Sandaruwan Mar 15 '22 at 06:22
[MasOS] [Sourcetree] 7. Sourcetree -> Preferences -> Accounts 8. Create Account with new passowrd 9. Now you can clone via HTTPS – Marc Mar 16 '22 at 11:44
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Do not forget to set needed permissions - at least Account Read and Repositories Read and Write! – David Najman Mar 18 '22 at 11:11
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Also, the username value is at general/account-settings/bitbucket-profile-settings@username – Daniel Cassiano Chaves Nov 22 '22 at 23:51
many thanks this is really work and helped me – Mosa Mar 30 '23 at 10:10
WTF, I've setup an ssh key and everything and THIS was it? Man, that's carzy, thanks a lot! – cV2 Mar 30 '23 at 14:35
@Marc please update this answer with permission settings, as 'just creating an app password' does not work without guessing the right permissions – Alex V Apr 29 '23 at 13:35
@AlexV - I've added some comment on permissions, but if someone can't recognize what permission is necessary for pushing to a repo, I'm pretty sure they not should be doing so. – Marc May 01 '23 at 14:07

score 61 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 23 '22 at 15:29

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After 2022-03-01:

Beginning March 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to use your Atlassian account password when using Basic authentication with the Bitbucket Cloud REST API or Git over HTTPS.

Go to: Personal settings, App passwords
Create app password
Tick the necessary permissions for your needs. Account Read and Repositories Read and Write are needed for basic Git actions.
Save the password. You can not view it again!
Use the generated password to log in. You might need to use your Bitbucket username that you can find on Personal settings, Account settings under "Bitbucket profile settings" (saw a post that told specifically to use the username don't know if it is true).

More information about app passwords is on App passwords.

edited Apr 23 '22 at 15:29

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answered Mar 10 '22 at 13:22

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Now, which are the "necessary permissions for [my] needs"? Using command-line git and have no idea which permissions are necessary beyond 'repositories' read and write??? – leanne Mar 10 '22 at 21:51
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Added that part to point nr 3. – Mikk Raudsepp Mar 11 '22 at 12:18
Can you add that as an answer, Mikk, to [my SO question here](https://stackoverflow.com/q/71431354/1107226)? (Just the permissions part) – leanne Mar 11 '22 at 14:53
This one explained it best. The page i came across in the bitbucket page only explained why it is not supported anymore but does not provide instructions on what to do next. – chitgoks Mar 12 '22 at 06:17
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Isn't this backwards? They used to support OAuth, which was both user-friendly and secure. Are you sure you are not misunderstanding something, or the problem is really something else? – Florian Winter Mar 14 '22 at 11:25
What specifically is the "Account Read" permission for? Doesn't the Git CLI just need to access the repository? – Garret Wilson Aug 10 '22 at 20:18
should be the best answer instead of the above upvoted, because of the permission settings tip: creating app password is obvious, but setting the right permissions not - only point No 3 helped me to push code to bitbucket – Alex V Apr 29 '23 at 13:32

Anish · Answer 3 · 2022-09-23T05:29:38.960

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After successfully creating the app password as mentioned by Asyraf Arifin:

To use Bitbucket "App Password" over HTTPS, you can then navigate to particular repository's path in Terminal then set the remote origin (for an already-cloned repository):

git remote set-url origin https://<Bitbucket_Username>:<App_Password>@bitbucket.org/<Bitbucket_Username>/<Repo_Name>.git

For a new clone:

git clone https://<Bitbucket_Username>:<App_Password>@bitbucket.org/<Bitbucket_Username>/<Repo_Name>.git

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answered Mar 10 '22 at 12:40

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The use of `bitbucket_username` is confusing here. The first is the login username, the 2nd is the BB `accountname` of the repos, thus: "git remote set-url origin https://``:@bitbucket.org/``/.git" – Ray Oei Apr 12 '22 at 11:36
If you do this, it fails. When you give your username, it fails, when you give your email, it explains the proper commands. – Yannick Mussche Sep 22 '22 at 20:14
@YannickMussche I have added screenshot for your reference. – Anish Sep 23 '22 at 11:04
Thank you but I know what my username is. – Yannick Mussche Sep 23 '22 at 13:12

Artyom Vancyan · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-11T15:59:27.327

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I had the same problem with my JetBrains IDE. It was showing a password dialog when I tried updated project sources or push my commits.

I solved the problem by following the below steps

Open App Passwords page of personal settings on the Bitbucket
Click on Create app password and tick at least the read and write permissions of the repositories for the basic pull and push actions. Then give some label and submit by Create.
The generated app password should be passed in IDE

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answered Mar 19 '22 at 10:35

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For those looking for a solution using VS Code, the idea is pretty similar. When entering the push command a new prompt should appear at the top of the screen saying that you can press 'Enter' to push. This will fail because you are actually supposed to paste the password in the little text box that say 'Password' just above. So you just copy and paste like here and voilá. – Lucas S. G. Apr 16 '22 at 07:05
What JetBrains IDE? JetBrains is the name of the company. They have [many IDEs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains#IDEs), e.g. [IntelliJ IDEA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliJ_IDEA), [PhpStorm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpStorm), and [PyCharm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyCharm). – Peter Mortensen Apr 23 '22 at 14:59
@PeterMortensen It doesn't matter which one, as VCS works the same for all the IDEs listed above. – Artyom Vancyan Apr 24 '22 at 08:08
Working with VScode as well :) :) – Binary_Hits00 Sep 05 '22 at 14:25

score 25 · Answer 5 · edited May 14 '23 at 04:39

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My answer is just a compilation of Mikk Raudsepp's and Anish's answers.

Go to: Personal settings, App passwords
Create app password
Tick the necessary permissions for your needs.
Copy the generated password

On Terminal

On an already-cloned project:

 git remote set-url origin https://<Bitbucket_Username>:<App_Password>@bitbucket.org/<username/repoName>.git

To clone a new project:

 git clone https://<Bitbucket_Username>:<App_Password>@bitbucket.org/<username/RepoName>.git

Why is it happening? -

Beginning March 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to use your Atlassian account password when using Basic authentication with the Bitbucket Cloud REST API or Git over HTTPS.

edited May 14 '23 at 04:39

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answered Mar 11 '22 at 07:30

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do we need to write these symbols: "< >"? – Kepol Mar 14 '22 at 09:11
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nop. we don't need to. – Fe3back Mar 14 '22 at 10:35
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You forgot to add before . When copying someone else's code, be sure to copy the entire code;) – dimitar Apr 28 '22 at 06:26

score 17 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 23 '22 at 15:06

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Go to Personal settings from the menu at the top. Click on App passwords and set up the permissions as required as shown below.

Copy the generated password and use it on the authentication prompt. This will resolve the issue.

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answered Apr 12 '22 at 04:23

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Thanks a great deal. Expended energy for no reason whatsoever when its so easy – Afshin Ghazi Oct 12 '22 at 13:09

score 5 · Answer 7 · edited Apr 23 '22 at 14:25

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Go to Credential Manager → Windows Credentials → Add a generic credential
Fill up the fields:
- Network address: git:https://bitbucket.org
- Username:
- App Password:

It was solved by this question.

edited Apr 23 '22 at 14:25

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answered Mar 07 '22 at 11:47

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Re *"Windows Credentials"*: Isn't it [under *"Generic Credentials"*](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49033193/)? – Peter Mortensen Apr 23 '22 at 14:30

score 4 · Answer 8 · edited Apr 23 '22 at 15:28

If any Linux user is facing the same issue, please follow the steps given below.

Go to bitbucket.org
Click on the Login link
At the bottom left, click on your avatar icon (your profile picture).
Then click Personal settings or you can open Personal settings, Account settings directly
In the Access Management section, click on the App password link or you can go directly to Personal settings, App passwords
Click on the Create App password button.
Give the access rights as per your requirement.
Click on Create.
You get the pop up with a password. Copy that password somewhere in your laptop or pc (the given password will be difficult to remember).
Now whenever you’re are performing a Git operation, like pull or push and if they asked for password. Instead of using your login password, you need to use the above password (one which is generated by the app password).

score 2 · Answer 9 · edited May 14 '23 at 04:38

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In my case I had no option to create app passwords. Instead there was an option to create Personal access tokens. Now, once you create a token, you have to put the same token in place of the password. This works in Android Studio / IDEA as well as on the command prompt.

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score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 22 '23 at 12:15

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Note in Repository Need Admin access and use updated password in terminal

answered Jun 22 '23 at 12:15

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score 1 · Answer 11 · edited May 14 '23 at 04:36

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I created an app password, made sure the user is username and not email, then updated the app password in Windows' Credential Manager. Adding the app password in the repository path finally resolved my issue:

From:

https://username@bitbucket.org/...

To:

https://username:app_password@bitbucket.org/...

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answered Mar 24 '22 at 11:24

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score 0 · Answer 12 · edited May 14 '23 at 04:32

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Try setting-up passwordless login. With this method, you will never need to worry about remembering the password again on your machine (but don’t use this technique on public computers)

See Atlassian documentation: Set up an SSH key

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answered Mar 31 '22 at 13:55

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 06 '22 at 06:04

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If you already generated an app password, if you are using VSCode and you have installed the Atlassian extension, then click on the git pull/push button and this will open the login dialog. Click authorize and that's it. Now you are logged in.

answered Jun 06 '22 at 06:04

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jun 26 '22 at 08:19

I had some problems with this on my Mac using Android Studio. I fixed it by going into the Android Studio terminal tab and writing

git push

Then it told me that fatal: The current branch blabla_branch_name has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream origin blabla_branch_name

So I copied and pasted that into the terminal and hit enter again. This time it asked me for a password. I went into my bitbucket account online and created a new app password. Then I copied that password that it created, and pasted it into the terminal and hit enter. This seems to have reconnected the device and bitbucket and things work again.

score -1 · Answer 15 · edited Apr 23 '22 at 14:34

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For Mac users:

cd Library/Application\ Support/SourceTree

Delete your username here.

You can log in again.

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answered Mar 09 '22 at 15:53

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score -1 · Answer 16 · answered May 20 '22 at 11:05

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Try creating ssh key and add ssh key to the bitbucket and try

answered May 20 '22 at 11:05

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Sunil Garg already suggested this. Please don't repeat answers. – ChrisGPT was on strike May 20 '22 at 12:18

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