# Task JIM-161 - Are there alternative authentication mechanisms apart from PAT for the migration tool?

Project: Stream Jira to OpenProject data Migrator
Status: specified
URL: https://community.openproject.org/work_packages/JIM-161

## Details

| Attribute | Value |
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| Assignee |  |
| Date |  |
| Priority | Medium |
| Target versions | 18.0.0 |
| Onboarding activity |  |
| Category | Core |
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## Description

## Context

A potential customer wanting to migrate from Jira to OpenProject uses an API Gateway in front of the Jira server, with a Basic authentication by default. Although it could be technically possible to switch to OIDC, the Jira integration proposed in OpenProject seem to only support Personal Access Tokens (PAT). Problem is that their Jira PAT are not configured to go through their enterprise gateway.

## Questions

*   is there a workaround to use basic authentication or OIDC with OpenProject connecting to Jira?
    
*   If not, is it planned to add other authentication methods in the roadmap?
    
*   If no alternative exist, would they be forced to:
    
    *   either add the ability to use Jira PAT through their gateway
        
    *   or add a direct access between OpenProject and Jira (bypassing the gateway)