Setting up OAuth for local development

[eatyourgreens]

Some notes on setting up GItHub auth for local development:

• Create a new OAuth app on your GitHub account: https://github.com/settings/developers
  • App URL will be something like http://localhost:3000
  • NextAuth uses {origin}/api/auth/callback/{provider} for the callback URL so http://localhost:3000/api/auth/callback/github
• Copy the client secret and client ID and add them to your local .env.
  • GITHUB_ID: client ID.
  • GITHUB_SECRET: client secret.
• Set NEXTAUTH_URL: http://localhost:3000/api/auth

[eatyourgreens]

Looks promising…

[eatyourgreens]

Once you're logged in, you'll need to find your user record in the User table, and set admin to true.

It would be useful to set up an admin user automatically for new installs.

[alasdairwilson]

It would be useful to set up an admin user automatically for new installs.

I didn't think there was a trivial way to do this considering we are using github oauth, a long time ago there was the idea of allowing direct uname/pass login to the user account rather than via oauth but it isn't useful beyond this idea of preseeding the db with a local admin account.

Likewise it is also necessary to not ALWAYS being admin as the behaviour of the site in the general user case needs to be checked too.