Current User not permitted to use confluence

[KeithETruesdell]

What happened?

A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
I am running the command

mark -u <my username> -p <my password or key> -b <my hosted server>/wiki -f test.md --trace

And i am getting an error.

Report-To: {"endpoints": [{"url": "https://dz8aopenkvv6s.cloudfront.net/"}], "group": "endpoint-1", "include_subdomains": true, "max_age": 600}
                              Server: AtlassianEdge
                              Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=630[72](xxxxxxxx)000; includeSubDomains; preload
                              Vary: Accept-Encoding
                              Warning: 299 - "Deprecated API, will be removed on Mon, 2 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT"
                              X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
                              X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
                              
                              {"message":"Current user not permitted to use Confluence","statusCode":403}
2024-08-23 16:50:50.182 FATAL unable to resolve page
                              └─ error while finding page "Test"
                                 ├─ Confluence API returned unexpected status: 403 Forbidden, output: "{\"message\":\"Current user not permitted to use Confluence\",\"statusCode\":403}"
                                 └─ title: Qos-Test

I am able to log into my companies Jira and Confluence, and I am able make posts and update them, manually. The username and password are the same, via cli or when i manually login.

What did you expect to happen?

I expect that to be updated or created.

How can we reproduce the behavior you experienced?

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Step 1
   run the mark command stated above...

In case this is related to specific markdown, please provide a minimal markdown example here.

Further Information (please complete the following information)

• Mark Version (mark --version): [e.g. v9.1.4]
  10.0.1

• Mark Parameters: [e.g. --drop-h1 --title-from-h1]
  --trace, -f (with the file name), -b (with the server url and /wiki at the end), -u and -p for my username and password

• Confluence Hosting: [e.g. Cloud, Server or Datacenter]
  cloud

• Confluence Version: [e.g. v7.13]
  Confluence 1000.0.0-c4fd8688f220 ? I am not sure how to find this but this is from the "about" section

• Environment specific Information: [e.g. running in Github Actions, or on Mac OS X, etc.]
  I get this via MacOSX or running via Gitlab pipelines.
  We have a vpn, which I am logged in, but I don't need to be on the VPN to get to my confluence.

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[KeithETruesdell]

is there an issue with being behind a firewall, or different methods of authentication / logins?

[mrueg]

Instead of using the password, you might need to create an API Token https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/using-personal-access-tokens-1026032365.html can you try with this and see if it's working?