Issue Summary

Is this reproducible on Data Center: no

In an on-prem environment, individual users are able to create Personal Access Tokens through a REST API call: https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/using-personal-access-tokens-1026032365.html 

In Jira Cloud - the only option to create an API token is through the Jira UI by accessing the Atlassian Account page. 

Suggestion

Create a similar process as on-prem and provide an API endpoint that allows a user to generate a new API token, as well as revoking a token. Perhaps they can first pass basic username + password as a means to authenticate to this endpoint and generate the token.

This can be useful for those who are looking to automate the process of creating/revoking tokens on a frequent schedule. 

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available