Hello folks,

I have been addressing similar issues in regards to connect to other systems and am still trying to get this to work.
Never the less, in order to make a proper research on my issue is it important to wrap this up from the beginning.

And the beginning is ... the Jenkins CLI of course.

So step one:

• java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://b00012:8080/ help
  results in:
  You must authenticate to access this Hudson.
  Use -username/password/-password-file parameters or login command.

Thats OK to me. BUT nothing like username or login will work.
Login:

• java -jar c:\bin\jenkins-cli.jar -s http://b00012:8080/ login
  results in:
  hudson.security.UserMayOrMayNotExistException: Unable to query user information: anonymous
  at hudson.security.UserDetailsServiceProxy.loadUserByUsername(UserDetailsServiceProxy.java:43)
  at hudson.security.SecurityRealm.loadUserByUsername(SecurityRealm.java:305)
  at hudson.cli.ClientAuthenticationCache.set(ClientAuthenticationCache.java:94)
  at hudson.cli.LoginCommand.run(LoginCommand.java:37)
  ...

All other attempts to fire a command from the CLI without using the login command but passing the user credentials with username/password ends up with:
"--username" is not a valid option"

I have tried it all possible methods that came across my mind or Google. Always the same crap.
I know that Alex Lustenberg has posted a java sample on the collab.net site that has to be adapted and compiled.

• I am no developer so this would take loads of time for me if I should get this working at all as different authentication methods (SSO/auth to CTF when auth to Jenkins) require different methods...or not. I'm no developer so what?
• The functionality is given as the collabnet plugin can authenticate versus CTF
• I have no time for this.

Maybe this would be an issue for Kohsuke

btw. sorry for the priority. But this issue makes an automatic system not so automatic anymore. This is getting close to a show stopper due to fail QoS