Re:Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked,...
by nickgros on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:00AM
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IIRC the OAuth2-interfacing application needs to (or at least should) know beforehand exactly what to request access to, so if that's read/write access to all of the user's content, it's trivial. For the external application to know something specific like a particular resource is more complicated to deal with (especially with private/hidden content), so most OAuth providers don't provide that level of granularity. It can be done, it just requires more engineering than most (all?) off-the-shelf OAuth solutions provide, and it's more control than most users actually need.
honest question, what's the point of using OAuth when the Authz is so coarse? Why not augment to have scopes per repo? Is it considered bad practice to have have a variable (repo name) as a scope?