Username and password not read from configuration file

[srsross]

All,

I have two "beginner" questions that I don't see addressed on the documentation page at https://jira-cli.readthedocs.io/en/master/intro.html.

When I first executed jira-cli configure, the command prompted me for the base URL, the authentication method, my user name, and my password. So far, so good. But the command never returned after I entered my password. Why would that be?

So, I directly entered both my username and password into the file ~/.jira-cli/config.cfg.

However, I am only able to successfully use "jira-cli to view a JIRA issue when I provide both my user name and password as option arguments on the command line. If I don't provide both, the command hangs. If I do provide both, I get the expected output. (I don't need to provide the--jira-url option of the command line, so that is being read from the configuration file.) How can I avoid providing my username and password with each command?

Thanks in advance for any help,
-- Steve