gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/doc/api/session.md
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# Session
## Deprecation Notice
1. Starting in GitLab 8.11, this feature has been *disabled* for users with two-factor authentication turned on.
2. These users can access the API using [personal access tokens] instead.
---
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 |
```bash
curl --request POST "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/session?login=john_smith&password=strongpassw0rd"
```
Example response:
```json
{
"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"
}
```
[personal access tokens]: ./README.md#personal-access-tokens