jenkins-cli username and password

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So, looking into the Jenkins CLI docs, it mentions the preferred method of auth is to set up an SSH Public Key in your Jenkins user account, then referencing that with the CLI like:

java -jar /opt/jenkins-cli.jar -s "http://localhost:8080" -i path/to/key.rsa who-am-i
Digging down deeper into the CLI jarfile options, I found that the username/password combo is still usable with the -auth option:

java -jar /opt/jenkins-cli.jar -s "http://localhost:8080" -auth username:password who-am-i
The docs do state you should use your Jenkins user token if possible, but it's much harder to automate the user setup and token retrieval, than to use a username and password setup by automated build scripts.