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Is it possible to authenticate a user given a username and password using the REST API?

Bradley_ao06wf

I was looking to see if, given a user's username and password, a request could be made to the confluence API that will verify whether or not the user's username and password combination is valid and return a value based upon that.

Is there any such endpoint/protocol?

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Bill Bailey

I would suggest solving the problem differently, and bringing up SSO using an identity manager. Your secondary application can then just query the identity manager.

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Florian Bonniec

Not sure what you want to do but you can do any REST Call that reauired authentication. If it returned http 401 it means that password/ username are wrong.

I would use this call.

https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/7.18.3/#user-getCurrent

Bill Bailey

I would suggest solving the problem differently, and bringing up SSO using an identity manager. Your secondary application can then just query the identity manager.

Bradley_ao06wf

While I did not ultimately go with this solution to resolve the issue, I was able to utilize getCurrent elsewhere in the process. Thank you for this reference!

Bradley_ao06wf

Unfortunately this ended up being the solution. Although I did not end up using SSO, I was able to solve the problem by refactoring the workflow a bit. After providing authentication credentials my application attempts a GET request of some data from the Confluence instance, which will 200 if the credentials are valid or give a specific error if invalid. Thanks for the help!

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