[LEDE-DEV] github oauth for webpage editing requests too many permission

Thomas Endt tmo26 at gmx.de
Thu Jun 8 05:44:56 PDT 2017


> Von: Lede-dev [mailto:lede-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org] Im Auftrag
> von Alberto Bursi
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2017 20:11
> 
> On 06/07/2017 05:45 PM, Martin Tippmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Karl Palsson <karlp at tweak.net.au>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was trying to fix something on the documentation pages of
> >> lede-project today, and tried to login with github.
> >>
> >> However, the docuwiki/oauth thing is demanding full read/write
> access
> >> to my account, which seems.... excessive...
> > Hi, we already noticed this:
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-
> October/003099.html
> >
> > https://github.com/cosmocode/dokuwiki-plugin-oauth/issues/41
> >
> > Looks like the original plugin is still not updated.
> >
> 
> Seems like the fix is pretty trivial though (change a line in a php
> file), see this commit from a fork:
> https://github.com/micgro42/dokuwiki-plugin-
> oauth/commit/39b9184bb4c606c3d0fc43d8e565368bcaab2f92
> 
> Anyone with root access to the server can easily do that on our side.
> 
> I can do that if we agree it's OK to do so.
> 
> -Alberto


Seems there is finally some movement after I nudged a bit: Pull request has
been opened.
https://github.com/cosmocode/dokuwiki-plugin-oauth/issues/41

However, the real implementation date is still unknown, and since the
solution is so easy, I'd say: Go ahead, apply that change to the LEDE wiki.


Thomas






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