My understanding from this question about HTTP Basic authentication not working anymore for jira.atlassian.com is that the workflow should be something like the following: * Post username/password to https://id.atlassian.com/id/rest/login * Retrieve the __ATL_TOKEN cookie sent in the response to a successful login above * Use the provided __ATL_TOKEN in subsequent requests to https://myjira.atlassian.net If this is correct, then perhaps this no longer works or there is a PEBKAC. If this workflow is not correct, what should I be doing to ensure that I can use Atlassian Accounts through REST for JIRA? Thanks in advance, Sohail

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REST + SSO + Atlassian Account + JIRA

Sohail_iqvud5

My understanding from this question about HTTP Basic authentication not working anymore for jira.atlassian.com is that the workflow should be something like the following:

Post username/password to https://id.atlassian.com/id/rest/login
Retrieve the __ATL_TOKEN cookie sent in the response to a successful login above
Use the provided __ATL_TOKEN in subsequent requests to https://myjira.atlassian.net

If this is correct, then perhaps this no longer works or there is a PEBKAC.

If this workflow is not correct, what should I be doing to ensure that I can use Atlassian Accounts through REST for JIRA?

Thanks in advance,

Sohail

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Sam Hall_h1otcf

Are you just trying to use basic auth to log in to your Cloud JIRA instance (for example https://{your-instance-name}.atlassian.net)?

Or are you trying to log in to https://jira.atlassian.com (Atlassian's public-facing issue tracker) specifically?

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Sam Hall_h1otcf

Are you just trying to use basic auth to log in to your Cloud JIRA instance (for example https://{your-instance-name}.atlassian.net)?

Or are you trying to log in to https://jira.atlassian.com (Atlassian's public-facing issue tracker) specifically?

Sohail_iqvud5

Hi Sam,

Thanks for looking. I'm trying to use the REST API on my instance.

I am not using any "auth" on the JIRA side, but trying to figure out which cookies need to be set and where to get them from. What I have pieced together based on my experimentation with cURL and looking at cookies in the browser is that I have to get the following cookies:

JSESSIONID
__ATL_TOKEN
studio.crowd.tokenkey

I can get the first two, but not the last. I'm not sure how that is set, or where it comes from.

Sam Hall_h1otcf

Does a cURL using basic auth not work for you? This works OK for me:

curl -D- -u user\@example.com:password -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://yourjirainstance.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta

Note I use my Atlassian Account login details (so email address and password, instead of username and password).

Based on this example: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-basic-authentication/

To do cookie-based auth, I log in over REST using POST /rest/auth/1/session and use the resulting session cookie in subsequent requests along the lines of the example here.

Edit: updated links to point to the newer versions of the cloud REST API docs.

Sohail_iqvud5

This does not work for me. I believe the reason is due to the recent upgrade to Atlassian accounts (SSO).

Mateusz Miara

For a single solution to using SSO with your Atlassian products, consider Crowd 3.4 with its SSO 2.0 - Crowd’s single point of access for Jira, Jira Service Desk, Bitbucket, and Confluence across different domains with one common login page.

NJR_vm6e9h

but that all are not free/open source and for small cos it is too big amount to pay. can you suggest any free implementation for sso to use here in jira and confluence

Hubert Cross_boziyr

What about supporting login through Okta's SSO? Lots of companies are using this and it is currently not working.

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