Add private token API

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Description

You can't directly use kerberos auth to make write requests to the API. Instead, you have to do a wacky auth dance. See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1469

The cookie obtained through the wacky dance might expire. So it would be good to get a token that won't expire (unless someone explicitly requests that it does).

Proposal

That's what the private token is. Once you've done Kerberos auth, you can get that token by screen-scraping. But it would be better if there were an API, since screen-scraping is not fun.

Patch at #11887 (closed)