Using GitHub for authentication of internal apps is actually really nice. If you're using Jenkins for CI, there is a plugin: https://github.com/mocleiri/githu

Using GitHub for authentication of internal apps is actually really nice. If you're using Jenkins for CI, there is a plugin: https://github.com/mocleiri/github-oauth-plugin https://github.com/mocleiri/github-oauth-plugin And my company needed a more general solution so we built Doorman, which is an HTTP proxy that OAuths with GitHub. (among other things): http://movableink.github.com/doorman http://movableink.github.com/doorman