REST API authorization

Question

Hey,

I used to use Basic authentication to get issues with jira API. Now this way is disabled.

Is there any way to authenticate user with username and password? As I can not ask user to enter his API token as password.

I tried to retrieve auth token using POSTMAN OAUTH2, but unsuccessfully.

Thank you, Romas.

Ilya Turov · Answer

Atlassian state that their reasoning behide moving from basic and token auth to OAuth is exactly the fact that they do not want people using their login and password somewhere besides jira, so guess you are out of luck here.

FSCC Test User · Answer

i have figured it out. But in OAuth, you actually need to pass the consumer key, request token, verification code, and private key, to get the access token.

I want to authorize with user and password.

Ilya Turov · Answer

I believe OAuth 1.0 is the way to go for REST calls:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-oauth-authentication/