Netlify CMS, Gatsby and GitHub authentication without Netlify

Question

Did anyone has luck using OAUTH to authenticate to GB from Netlify CMS but NOT using the Netlify API? If so, what did you use? I want do the authentication with my domain but Im not sure which API or package Should I use for this. Im learning. Any help will be appreciated.

Almetaalmighty

see this #50809799 – Schurman

Answer 1

Yes, the external OAuth clients are listed under https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/authentication-backends/#github-backend. Currently, there are clients in Node.JS, Python, and Go:

• https://github.com/vencax/netlify-cms-github-oauth-provider
• https://github.com/davidejones/netlify-cms-oauth-provider-python
• https://github.com/igk1972/netlify-cms-oauth-provider-go

Once you set up the server, you can simply add a base_url setting point to your OAuth client under your backend in your CMS config:

backend:
  name: github
  repo: user/repo
  base_url: https://your.server.com # URL to OAuth client

Elwira

Thank you! I spent days looking for this simple answer. – Niggerhead