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plattform dependent hints for authentication #200

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jira-connector supports two forms of authentication:

### Basic Authentication (Deprecated)
### Basic Authentication (Deprecated, Server only)
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Are you sure that base64 basic auth actual? How I remember all basic auth mechanism is deprecated

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Probably just mark all basic auth as deprecated?


[Deprecated](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-with-passwords-for-jira-and-confluence-apis-972355348.html). It will require you to
provide a username and password each time you connect to the
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// Base64 encoding of 'SirUserOfName:Password123' (for legacy server version) or 'email:api_token' (jira cloud)
```

You can easily create the base64 encoded string.

Linux/Unix/MacOS:

```bash
echo -n [email protected]:api-token | base64
```

Windows 7 and later:

```powershell
$Text = ‘[email protected]:api-token’
$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Text)
$EncodedText = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)
$EncodedText
```

### OAuth Authentication

This should be the preferred method of authentication; it is more secure and does not require disclosing
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