Git asks for repo owner password, not for the teammate password

Question

I came across a weird issue. A new co-worker has joined my team. He tried to clone the repo and git has asked him for my password. We have verified that it doesn't accept his bitbucket password, while it accepts mine.

Some additional facts:

• He already uses git in another project, with credentials stored in netrc, and it works fine. Both repositories are on bitbucket so credentials should be the same.
• Other co-workers had no problem with cloning into this repo.
• He has a write access, just like the rest of the team.

If he had the same problem in a second repo, or another person had it, this would give me a clue. But that's not the case, and I'm confused.

Our remote repositories are hosted at bitbucket. He's using Windows.

What else could I be missing?

Answer 1

If it is asking for your password, it means it tries to authenticate with your login.

That means, if the repo was cloned (using your password), a git remote -v must show an url like:

https://YourLogin@server/path/to/repo

You can instruct the user to change the remote url named 'origin' with:

git remote set-url origin https://HisLogin@server/path/to/repo