Postman CLI doesn't use authentication

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I have made a collection, to which I’ve added a handful of tests. I have set up authorization (OAuth 2.0) on the collection itself and enabled “Auto-refresh token”.

When I run the collection with the Runner in the Postman UI, everything works fine. But when I run it from the Postman CLI, everything return 401 status codes.

I am running it with the following command in Power Shell:

postman collection run (...) -e (...) --insecure

Do I need to do anything (besides postman login) to get it to use the built in authorization?

2

It sounds like an issue with your variables. When you use the Postman CLI to fetch a collection, you only have access to the Initial value of your collection variables.

If you use environments, you also need to specify them in your Postman CLI collection run command.

3

I’m not updating any collection variables during the run. The authentication does use a value from the environment, but that is the initial value.

Do you know if the authentication on a collection is run automatically when you run it from the CLI, or if you need to run it manually somehow?

4

Good question because I’m stuck here too. If oauth2.0 set in Postman’s native way, is there a chance that Postman will get the auth token itself on Posman CLI collection run?