This resource requires websudo

[Salmane Hmiza (Requirement Yogi)]

I'm trying to add a user through rest api:

/rest/api/2/user

payload: 

{
"name": "test",
"password": "test",
"emailAddress": "test@test.com",
"displayName": "test",
"notification": "false"
}

Using basic authentification

i get 401: this resource requires websudo while it is disabled in jira's configuration

what am i missing

[Daniel Eads]

Hey Salmane,

Can I ask if you're running this against a Jira Cloud instance or a Jira Server, and if Server, which version?

We recently made changes to Jira Cloud that require you to use an API token when authenticating with basic authorization, although the error you'd get is different than the error you're seeing right now.

Thanks,
Daniel | Atlassian Support