Postman BasicAuth with Username/API-Token: 401

[Frank Leverenz]

Hi,

I generated a token for my user but cannot login with postman "BasicAuth" with email and this token as password: get 401

I found these artikles but cannot find a solution

• Which Auth method works in POSTMAN rest API call
• Jira Rest API & Postman: 401 Auth. Error

Jira v9.4.17 on premise

Any ideas?

[Evgenii]

Hi, @Frank Leverenz 

Welcome to Atlassian community.

If you want to use Basic Auth, you need to use your username and password, not token.

For token you must use Bearer Token authorization

[Frank Leverenz]

Hi @Evgenii 

thank you for your quick response

Here is the atlassian documentation for "basic auth": Link

1. Generate an API Token for your Atlassian Account: https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens
2. Build a string of the form your_email@domain.com:your_user_api_token.
3. You'll need to encode your authorization credentials to Base64 encoded

This is, what I've done

I also tested username/password, but this didn't work

BearerToken ist NOT the same as an API-Token:

• an API-token is generated and saved in my Account: https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens
• a BearerToken is generated by the auth-system after successful authentication and is only valid for the current session

[Evgenii]

@Frank Leverenz 

This documentation is for Cloud. But you're using onprem solution. 
Token, which you made in Atlassian account absolutely isn't linked with your onprem DataCenter Jira and any user in it. 

[Frank Leverenz]

Ho @Evgenii 

I generated the API-Token in my profile on our onprem solution, not in the atlassian cloud

So this won't work?

[Evgenii]

If you want to use token, which you created, use BearerToken authentication


If you want to use Basic Authentication, use login and password


It's for Onpremise solution.



In Cloud solution logic is absolutely different.