diff --git a/mercurial_keyring.py b/mercurial_keyring.py
--- a/mercurial_keyring.py
+++ b/mercurial_keyring.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class HTTPPasswordHandler(object):
                 return user, pwd
 
         if auth_user:
-            if user:
+            if user and (user != auth_user):
                 raise util.Abort(_('mercurial_keyring: username for %s specified both in repository path (%s) and in .hg/hgrc/[auth] (%s). Please, leave only one of those' % (base_url, user, auth_user)))
             user = auth_user
             if pwd: