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| author | Timothy Andrew <mail@timothyandrew.net> | 2016-12-21 20:09:44 +0530 |
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| committer | Timothy Andrew <mail@timothyandrew.net> | 2017-01-19 14:05:06 +0530 |
| commit | 63e8dc8a76184ff76feb9c3f4c21d3180edd218c (patch) | |
| tree | b5944118b1d890c86ec9d79036b1b0de468627a7 /doc/integration | |
| parent | 7e88b242ce194958c6a59755eb434c17625c4395 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-63e8dc8a76184ff76feb9c3f4c21d3180edd218c.tar.gz | |
Add documentation around OAuth/Personal Access Token scopes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/integration/oauth_provider.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/integration/oauth_provider.md b/doc/integration/oauth_provider.md index 0c53584d201..af8a1c4e5ed 100644 --- a/doc/integration/oauth_provider.md +++ b/doc/integration/oauth_provider.md @@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ in the **Authorized applications** section under **Profile Settings > Applicatio --- -As you can see, the default scope `api` is used, which is the only scope that -GitLab supports so far. At any time you can revoke any access by just clicking -**Revoke**. +GitLab's OAuth applications support scopes, which allow various actions that any given +application can perform. Although there are only two scopes available at the +moment – `read_user` and `api` – the groundwork has been laid to add more scopes easily. + +At any time you can revoke any access by just clicking **Revoke**. [oauth]: http://oauth.net/2/ "OAuth website" |