Jenkins authentication

[larsskj]

I'd like to see a way to handle authentication against the Jenkins server. Embedding a username/password in the URL works, but it's neither secure nor flexible.

[JonathanRRogers]

I agree that it would be good if devpi-jenkins had direct support for authentication. I observed that the plugin uses the Requests package, which looks for a .netrc file to configure HTTP BASIC authentication. I was able to generate an API token for my Jenkins user and put the user name and token as password into ~/.netrc.