Session

You can login with both GitLab and LDAP credentials in order to obtain the private token.

POST /session

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
login	string	yes	The username of the user
email	string	yes if login is not provided	The email of the user
password	string	yes	The password of the user

curl -X POST "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/session?login=john_smith&password=strongpassw0rd"

Example response:

{
  "name": "John Smith",
  "username": "john_smith",
  "id": 32,
  "state": "active",
  "avatar_url": null,
  "created_at": "2015-01-29T21:07:19.440Z",
  "is_admin": true,
  "bio": null,
  "skype": "",
  "linkedin": "",
  "twitter": "",
  "website_url": "",
  "email": "john@example.com",
  "theme_id": 1,
  "color_scheme_id": 1,
  "projects_limit": 10,
  "current_sign_in_at": "2015-07-07T07:10:58.392Z",
  "identities": [],
  "can_create_group": true,
  "can_create_project": true,
  "two_factor_enabled": false,
  "private_token": "9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK"
}