getting AUTHENTICATED_FAILED on curl

[Kween Baker]

getting AUTHENTICATED_FAILED on curl as follows:

curl -u user:password -X GET "https://confluence.example.com/rest/api/content/" | python -mjson.tool

[Marty]

Hi Kween,

keep in mind that the password for the REST API is different to the password you would use to login to your instance via the browser.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/ 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It looks like you've given it an invalid username/password combination.