Basic Auth JIRA's Rest API ( with SSO enabled)

[David Frager]

We recently moved to JIRA Cloud, with SSO enabled via OneLogin.

Any attempt to authenticate, using an SSO account, via the REST API fails.  Our only work-around is to create an Internal JIRA account. 

I have seen several posts on this, but I have not seen a clear solution.  We want to avoid having to maintain these "special" accounts, just for running scripts.

[Claudiu Lionte]

Hi David,

Did you try generating an API token? You can create as many as you want and revoke them at any time. Please see:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/api-tokens-938839638.html

Claudiu

[David Frager]

the API Tokens do work, however, the physical device being used to connect is not constant, and having everyone remember their own token is not workable

[Veda Sri]

Hi David,

Have you find a solution for this? How to authenticate jira API with SSO enabled?

[Daniel Serodio]

Veda, you need to generate the API token like Claidiu instructed, and use your SSO login (eg. firstname.lastname@example.com) as the username and the API token as the password.