Does Jira consider a PAT a "Signed in user" when creating a ticket using the API and a script?

Question

I have a Jira project that uses the default permission scheme. This scheme allows most things, but for signed in users (Application Access - Any logged in user). If I write a script that creates tickets using a service account and a PAT, is that connection considered "signing into Jira" or do I need to update my permission scheme to include that service account?

Form my years of experience, I would say that it does not. But, I would love to hear your input.

Thank you.

unknown · Answer

Try it for yourself and find out.

Have fun.

Jeramy · Answer

@[deleted] - Thank you for the response. Follow-up question/related question.

If the Create Issues permission in the project's permission scheme is set to "Application access - Any logged in user", will that service account be able to create a ticket using the API outside of Jira?

unknown · Answer

Hello @Jeramy

PATs belong to user accounts. Whether you consider that user account to be a 'service account' is entirely up to you.

It's considered good practice to have just such a 'special' user account set aside and used exclusively for performing admin / background tasks via the REST API. Give that user account a really obvious name to make it easy to differentiate via the event logs any action done by that account compared to a user account belonging to 'real' user.