How to access Jenkins using basic authentication

[Samith Dassanayake]

Hi all,

I want to access jenkins using basic authentication. I have started the jenkins as mentioned in [1] with user name "user" and password as "password" and choosing Delegate to servlet container for security realm and Legacy mode for authorization strategy. 

But when I try to access job configuration of a job(my_test_job) using curl command as in [2](using same credentials that which used in the server start up as in [1]), it wan't authorize and I can see following log [3] in the jenkins.

What am I missing here? How can I configure jenkins to access using simple basic authentication? Appreciate your help.. 

Note: I have enabled https and and changed the port to 9000 and my jenkins version is 1.609

[1] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Quick+and+Simple+Security

[2] curl -X GET  --user user:password --insecure https:///localhost:9000/job/my_test_job/config.xml

[3] "While serving https://localhost:9000/job/my_test_job/config.xml: hudson.security.AccessDeniedException2: anonymous is missing the Job/ExtendedRead permission."

Regards,

Samith