Bitbucket project and repository permission

[Rick Jansen]

Hello, 

Within our company we manage Bitbucket server and we would like to give users the right to create and possible modify repositories within project but NOT the ability to change the repository permissions. Is there any way we can do this?

[Jimmy Seddon]

Hi Rick,

Welcome to the Community!

Unfortunately, the permissions in BitBucket aren't structured in a way that would allow what you want to do.

You need to have Admin permissions at the project level in order to create repositories, which automatically gives you the access to edit the repository permissions.

One thing you could try to get around this issue is something we have done ourselves.  I have a "Sandbox" project, where all the developers have Admin permissions, this allows them to create new repositories for the proof of concept work they are doing, anything that is going to get turned into real work gets moved from the sandbox into antoher project relevant to the type of work it relates to.  In the destination project our developers only have write access so they can't mess with the repository permissions once something becomes real work.

I hope that helps!

-James