JIRA Cloud SSO - How REST API authentication works?

[Tier_2]

Hi - One of our customer is using Crowd (SSO) with JIRA Cloud. So he doesn't have username and password to login. 

In this case, what will be an ideal way to use authentication for REST API? 

I  want to make this command work. 

curl  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username" : “XXXX”, "password" : “pawword”}’ https://domain.atlassian.net/rest/auth/1/session

Can any one of you know how to make it work? 

Thank You. 

[Bruno Vincent]

Hi @Tier_2

You should use an API token for this: https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/api-tokens-938839638.html

[Tier_2]

Thanks Bruno. It helps. :-)