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Using API Tokens

Jeremy Kim_7ofka3

Hello,

I recently created an API Token in Atlassian to hopefully use it to access projects based on permission rules but I could not find any settings in projects where I could set permission rules based on API Token? Where can I set this?

Maybe I have the wrong idea in general about how API Tokens work.

Is there any documentation on using API Tokens in Jira? I found documents on creating an API token but nothing on actually using it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_

Hi Jeremy,

Think about API Token as your personal second password.

If you login with your username/token the system will give exactly the same permissions as you login via password or using UI.

Regards, Roman

Krister Broman _Advania_

You will mainly use your api token when working with the REST api, you have that documentation in the developer site:

Server: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/rest-apis/

Cloud: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/

As Roma already stated it will use the same permissions that you have within Jira. If you need to build a function or something then you create a new user account for the function and provide that account with increased/decreased permissions based on what you want to do.

Jeremy Kim_7ofka3

So if I'm getting this right,

The API Tokens are tied to an account, and not used as a separate user entity altogether?

Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_

You are right

Jeremy Kim_7ofka3

Can I create a Token for another user as an admin?

Roma Bubyakin _Wombats Corp_

As far as I know, no

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