401 When POST to get Personal Access token (PAT)

Andrew_9luwiy

I'm trying to create a Personal Access token (PAT) using the REST API by sending a POST request with the following body:

{
    "name": "tokenName",
    "expirationDuration": 90
}

to 

{{baseUrlOfYourInstance}}/rest/pat/latest/tokens

 but I keep getting a 401 Unauthorized error back.  The documentation here doesn't specify how to authenticate initially when trying to obtain a personal access token via the REST API. It just states to do what I am doing and you should get a personal access token back.  

Do you need to use basic auth first in order to get the PAT and then future requests can just use the PAT for authentication?

Kurt Klinner

@Andrew 

 

Hi Andrew

welcome to the Atlassian community

 

To get the token you need first to send an authenticated request, so instead of using for example 

curl https://YOURJIRAURL//rest/pat/latest/tokens

use

 curl -u 'USERNAME:PASSWORD'  \
--request POST  \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://YOURJIRAURL//rest/pat/latest/tokens  \
-d '{ "name": "tokenName", "expirationDuration": 90}' 

 

You should get a response similar to 

 

{"id":1,"name":"tokenName","createdAt":"2022-10-03T17:08:47.573+00:00","expiringAt":"2023-01-01T17:08:47.573+00:00","rawToken":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/IJ3l0/7QfoCzA96KDX7PkN"}⏎

Hope that helps

 

Cheers

Kurt