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Document why use this vs passing GitHub OAuth token with GitHubOAuthenticator

Open yuvipanda opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

You could mimic the experience of using gh-scoped-creds by instead using github oauthenticator with your jupyterhub and passing the full oauth token. While it does improve usability, it's a pretty hard security trade-off. Let's document what the trade-off is so users can make an informed choice.

Definition of done

  • [ ] Section added here about comparisoin with GitHubOAuthenticator
  • [ ] A link is added from https://github.com/jupyterhub/oauthenticator/tree/main/examples/auth_state (and related documentation) to this comparison

yuvipanda avatar Oct 14 '25 19:10 yuvipanda

Based off some conversations with @agoose77

yuvipanda avatar Oct 14 '25 19:10 yuvipanda