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> Why does signing up for a waitlist require me to give permissions to an app to act in my account? An app that isn't even officially from GitHub? Because it u
by joshmanders 4y ago
> Why does signing up for a waitlist require me to give permissions to an app to act in my account? An app that isn't even officially from GitHub?
Because it uses GitHub's oauth flow, all applications who use this flow show the same stuff.
- justin_oaks 4y agoOAuth allows the use of different scopes for different levels of access. So just because it uses OAuth doesn't mean it has to require major account access. I assume the problem is that GitHub doesn't have sufficiently granular permissions (OAuth scopes), or that the requesting app doesn't use the correct scopes.