How can a Jenkins user authentication details be passed to a script which uses Jenkins API to create jobs

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I have a script that delete and re-create jobs through curl HTTP-calls and I want to get rid of any hard-coded  username password   E g  curl -X POST  url --user username password  Considerations    Jenkins CLI  probably not an option    One should be able to achieve the same with the CLI as with Jenkins API  creating jobs etc  but as far as I understand Jenkins CLI is not a good alternative for me since jobs created with will only appear in Jenkins after restarting or a  Reload Configuration from Disk   and that would cancel any other running jobs  API token  Can t find out how to get the user token and then pass it as a parameter to the script  but that may be a solution

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With Jenkins CLI you do not have to reload everything - you just can load the job (update-job command). You can't use tokens with CLI, AFAIK - you have to use password or password file.
Token name for user can be obtained via http://<jenkins-server>/user/<username>/configure - push on 'Show API token' button.
Here's a link on how to use API tokens (it uses wget, but curl is very similar).

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Try this way   for example delete the job   curl --silent --show-error http    lt username gt   lt api-token gt   lt jenkins-server gt  job  lt job-name gt  doDelete   The api-token can be obtained from http    lt jenkins-server gt  user  lt username gt  configure

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I needed to explicitly add POST in the CURL command   curl -X POST http    lt user gt   lt token gt   lt server gt  safeRestart   I also have the SafeRestart Plugin installed  in case that makes a difference

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If you want to write a script to automate creation of jobs using the Jenkins API  you can use one of the API clients to do that  A ruby client for Jenkins is available at https   github com arangamani jenkins api client  gem install jenkins api client  require  rubygems  require  jenkins api client     Initialize the client by passing in the server information   and credentials to communicate with the server client   JenkinsApi  Client new     server ip   gt   127 0 0 1      username   gt   awesomeuser      password   gt   awesomepassword       The following block will create 10 jobs in Jenkins   test job 0  test job 1  test job 2      10 times do  num    client job create freestyle  name   gt   test job   num    end    The jobs in Jenkins can be listed using client job list all   The API client can be used to perform a lot of operations

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In order to use API tokens  users will have to obtain their own tokens  each from https    lt jenkins-server gt  me configure or https    lt jenkins-server gt  user  lt user-name gt  configure  It is up to you  as the author of the script  to determine how users supply the token to the script  For example  in a Bourne Shell script running interactively inside a Git repository  where  gitignore contains   jenkins api token  you might do something like   api token file    git rev-parse --show-cdup  jenkins api token  api token   cat   api token file     true  if   -z   api token     then     echo     echo  Obtain your API token from  JENKINS URL user  user configure      echo  After entering here  it will be saved in  api token file  keep it safe       read -p  Enter your Jenkins API token    api token     echo  api token  gt    api token file  fi curl -u  user  api token  JENKINS URL someCommand

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API token is the same as password from API point of view  see source code uses token in place of passwords for the API   See related answer from  coffeebreaks in my question python-jenkins or jenkinsapi for jenkins remote access API in python  Others is described in doc to use http basic authentication model

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This worked for me   curl -u  username  api token -FSubmit Build  http    lt jenkins-server gt  job  lt job-name gt  buildWithParameters environment     API token can be obtained from Jenkins user configuration

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