Collection level basic authorization not working

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App Details:

Postman for Mac
Version 5.5.0
OS X 10.12.6 / x64

Issue Report:

  1. Did you encounter this recently, or has this bug always been there:
    Yes, but this is my first attempt at using the collection level authorization.

  2. Expected behavior:
    The basic auth defined on a collection level works in the collection.

  3. Console logs (http://blog.getpostman.com/2014/01/27/enabling-chrome-developer-tools-inside-postman/ for the Chrome App, View->Toggle Dev Tools for the Mac app):
    N/A

  4. Screenshots (if applicable)
    N/A

Step to reproduce the issue:

  1. Create a new collection.
  2. Create a collection level basic authorization
  3. Create a request to send with auth type as ‘Inherit auth from parent’.
  4. send the request, but the request fails due to authorization error.
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Thanks for reporting this @rsubramanian. I’m hoping this is something we can troubleshoot remotely–direct message sent :grin:.

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Hi - was there a resolution to this? I am seeing exactly the same issue. Basic Auth has been set on my collection, everything else is set to inherit from parent, but when I try to use any of the APIs in that collection, I have to go set them manually for Basic Auth.

cheers
Rossi

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This issue seems to persist until now. Any thing new on this one?

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Hey @payload-geologist-37 @rossi141
Welcome to the community :wave:

I have tried replicating this but works fine for me. Here is the example collection link. You can import it and check it out.
https://www.getpostman.com/collections/f29db4b0738d820085d5
I have used the Postman echo basic auth endpoint in this.

May I request to know if you have Saved the auth method at the collection level?