Create non-admin API endpoint to generate and return personal access token

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Description

Currently there is no non-admin API endpoint to generate a personal access token for a GitLab user. This would be useful to have in order for scripts to automate GitLab tasks.

Proposal

Add a non-admin API endpoint that can create and return a personal access token for a user. The endpoint should take in the parameters that are needed in order to create a token through the web interface (namely scopes).

Links / references

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_tokens.html

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/#authentication

Use cases

Scripts to automate GitLab tasks