GitHub oAuth just gives me "Forbidden" when logging to Gerrit

Ondrej Svoboda osvoboda at redhat.com
Sat Apr 29 23:05:20 UTC 2017


My motivation: Fedora OpenID logged me out five times only yesterday, and
too many times before. GitHub seems handy to me, given that a simple
e-mail/login+password is not available in Gerrit at all.

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Ondrej Svoboda <osvoboda at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have two Gerrit accounts: "osvoboda" (primary e-mail:
> osvoboda at redhat.com), which I use exclusively, and "lenoch" (primary
> e-mail: ondrej at svobodasoft.cz), which I must have created because of my
> issues below, perhaps hoping to somehow merge the accounts later or just
> "make it work" cluelessly.
>
> I would like to use my GitHub account to log in to the "osvoboda" profile.
> When trying to add a new identity and clicking on "GitHub OAuth2
> (gerrit-oauth-provider plugin)" I am able to log in to my GitHub account
> and approve "oVirt Gerrit", which then shows in "Authorized applications"
> in my GitHub settings.
>
> Trying to log in, however, gives me a simple "Forbidden" message. Can
> anyone help me troubleshoot this, please? I thought this had to do
> something with the e-mail address GitHub supplies to Gerrit through OAuth,
> but I can never be sure. Do you know what "public information" GitHub
> actually shares with Gerrit?
>
> If anything, I wouldn't mind to have my "lenoch" Gerrit account removed,
> if there was any clash with the "osvoboda" account, in terms of linked
> e-mail addresses and GitHub authorizations.
>
> I hope someone has a clue :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Ondra
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/infra/attachments/20170430/aabc8892/attachment.html>


More information about the Infra mailing list