How to authenticate JIRA REST

Question

want to authenticate to "rest/api/2/issue/{issuekey}/comment"

Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Answer

You can see here as username

https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api/blob/master/atlassian/rest_client.py

Ashish Biswal · Answer

@Kurt Klinner

I am trying to use the basic authentication but how can I get the current logged in username and password or the base64 encode.

Kurt Klinner · Answer

@Ashish Biswal

Hi Ashish

there are a bunch of documentation articles available

Basic Auth

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/basic-authentication/

Oauth

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/

Pls. have a look

Cheers

Kurt