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

Question

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 use

Answer 1

Try this way: (for example delete the job)

curl --silent --show-error http://:@/job//doDelete

The api-token can be obtained from http:///user//configure.