Title: Basic authentication issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Basic authentication issue

 *  [yuc134](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuc134/)
 * (@yuc134)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-authentication-issue/)
 * I am new to WP so I would appreciate if someone can help.
 * I installed and activated both json-rest-api and Basic-Auth plugins.
 * I was able to get response when I did the following:
 * curl -i [http://mywordresssite.com/wp-json/](http://mywordresssite.com/wp-json/)
 * However, when I tried to delete a post by doing the following, I was not able
   to do it. I am sure my user name and password are correct.
 * curl -X DELETE –user admin:password [http://mywordpresssite.com/wp-json/posts/67](http://mywordpresssite.com/wp-json/posts/67)
 * Response I received:
    [{“code”:”json_user_cannot_delete_post”,”message”:”Sorry,
   you are not allowed to delete this post.”}]
 * Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/)

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 * Last reply from: [yuc134](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuc134/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-authentication-issue/)
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