Overview

There are various authentication options used by Atlassian applications for remote access. The following are those available and supported by the CLI at least on the latest release levels.

Application	Basic Authentication	Session Authentication	OAuth and Related Tokens	Discussion
Jira, Confluence Cloud	Parameters user (user name or email) password	Parameters user (for login) password (for login) login (subsequent actions) Default with automatic login	Atlassian Personal Access Tokens (also known as API Tokens) Parameters user (email address) password (access token)	Recommend: Use an access token. It can be used as a replacement for your password Atlassian has deprecated use of Basic and Session authentication and is likely to remove support later in 2018 Deprecation notice UPM client also supports the same authentication methods
Jira Server	Parameters user (user name) password	Parameters user (for login) password (for login) login (subsequent actions) Default with automatic login	JCLI-1220	Let default support use automatic session authentication Only special case, advanced scripting should bother with using login action and saved sessions UPM client also supports the same authentication methods
Confluence Server	Parameters user (user name) password	Parameters user (for login) password (for login) login (subsequent actions) Default with automatic login		Let default support use automatic session authentication Only special case, advanced scripting should bother with using login action and saved sessions UPM client also supports the same authentication methods
Bamboo Server	Parameters user (user name) password			UPM client also supports the same authentication methods
Bitbucket Server	Parameters user (user name) password		Personal Access Tokens Parameters token Supported Bitbucket Server 5.5 and higher CLI 7.8 and higher	UPM client also supports the same authentication methods See also Access Tokens.
Bitbucket Cloud	Parameters user (user name) password		App passwords user (user name) password (app password)	See also Access Tokens.
Hipchat Server and Cloud			Hipchat Access Tokens Parameters token
Trello			Trello Token Parameters token
Slack	Parameters token			See Access Tokens.

Authentication

Overview