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feat: add OAUTH_USERINFO fallback for providers with opaque tokens - #1425
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GitHub OAuth returns opaque access tokens (not JWTs) and has no id_token. This adds a third fallback that fetches user info from a configurable endpoint (e.g. https://api.github.com/user) using the Bearer token. Also adds Accept: application/json header to the token request, since GitHub's token endpoint returns application/x-www-form-urlencoded by default unless explicitly asked for JSON. Fixes compatibility with GitHub OAuth and similar providers.
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Pull request overview
This PR improves OAuth login in the API by supporting providers that return opaque access tokens (e.g., GitHub) and ensuring token exchange responses are parsed as JSON.
Changes:
- Add
Accept: application/jsonto the OAuth token exchange request to avoid form-encoded responses breaking parsing. - Add an opt-in
OAUTH_USERINFOfallback to fetch a user profile when JWT decoding of tokens fails. - Add a GitHub Actions workflow to build and push a custom Docker image to an AWS ECR registry.
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packages/api/src/auth/authProvider.js |
Adds JSON accept header for token exchange and an opt-in userinfo fetch fallback for opaque-token providers. |
.github/workflows/build-custom-docker.yaml |
Introduces a custom Docker build-and-push workflow targeting a specific ECR registry/repository. |
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POSIX shells (sh/dash) silently drop environment variables whose names contain hyphens because they are not valid shell identifiers. This caused LOGIN_PERMISSIONS_* vars for GitHub users with hyphens in their username (e.g. adrian-da-silva) to never reach the Node.js process. Switching from entrypoint.sh to a direct CMD bypasses the shell, so Node.js receives ALL env vars set by Kubernetes.
…okup POSIX shells and K8s envFrom both reject env var names containing hyphens. Instead of fighting this, normalize GitHub usernames by replacing hyphens with underscores when constructing the env var key. This allows LOGIN_PERMISSIONS_adrian_da_silva to match the GitHub user adrian-da-silva.
Without adjustPackageJson, useBundleExternals stays 'false' and webpack externalizes ALL plugin dependencies (lodash, dbgate-tools, etc). These never get installed in the Docker image, causing: Cannot find module 'lodash' when loading dbgate-plugin-postgres adjustPackageJson sets useBundleExternals='true' so non-volatile deps get bundled INTO the plugin backend.js files.
- Remove debug logging from authProvider.js - Remove Automya-specific CI workflow - Restore original Dockerfile - Add comment explaining hyphen-to-underscore normalization
Updated PR — cleaned up and added hyphen normalization fixChanges in
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Restores .github/workflows/build-custom-docker.yaml, removed in 865b71f while cleaning the branch for upstream review, and builds each architecture on its own native runner. The removal had a cost: the manual rebuild that replaced it (image tag oauth-userinfo-multiplatform, 2026-09-10) left out `adjustPackageJson --community`, so common/useBundleExternals.js stayed 'false', plugin webpack treated lodash and dbgate-tools as externals instead of bundling them, and docker/package.json was generated without the driver deps. Every connection in staging then failed with a misleading "Cannot find module '.../dbgate-plugin-postgres/dist/backend.js'" -- the file is there; the require that actually fails is lodash. That step had already been added in b2a32ad five hours before the workflow was deleted. Changes over the April version: - matrix of native runners (ubuntu-24.04 / ubuntu-24.04-arm), each running its own prep. docker/Dockerfile does not run yarn install: prepare:docker vendors node_modules from the host, so a single-runner cross build ships one architecture's native modules inside the other's image. yarn also resolves optionalDependencies per platform, so the wrong package gets installed, not just the wrong binary. - push by digest, then a merge job builds the manifest list. - publishes oauth-userinfo-v2 and oauth-userinfo-<short-sha>. The oauth-userinfo tag is left alone: it is what production runs. - sanity check that fails the run when the prepared build has too few modules or a too-small plugin backend.js. Verified locally for both architectures: 185 packages in docker/node_modules, 127922-byte dbgate-plugin-postgres/dist/backend.js, per-platform native bindings, and both slices connecting to a live postgres:16 (server-status ok, databases listed).
ci: build multi-arch image on native runners
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Fixes #1424
Problem
GitHub OAuth (and similar providers like Bitbucket, GitLab CE) return opaque access tokens instead of JWTs, and don't provide an
id_token. This means both existing decode attempts inoauthToken()returnnull, the login defaults to the literal string'oauth', and authentication fails with "Username oauth not allowed to log in".Additionally, GitHub's token endpoint returns
application/x-www-form-urlencodedby default, so without an explicitAccept: application/jsonheader the response isn't parsed correctly.Changes
packages/api/src/auth/authProvider.js:Added
Accept: application/jsonheader to the token exchange POST request (ensures proper JSON parsing for all providers, backwards compatible)Added a third fallback after the existing JWT decode attempts: if
OAUTH_USERINFOenv var is set and bothaccess_tokenandid_tokenJWT decoding failed, fetch user info from the configured endpoint using the Bearer token:Backwards compatibility
Accept: application/jsonheader is standard and already expected by all major OAuth providers. No behavioral change for existing setups.OAUTH_USERINFOfallback is opt-in. If the env var is not set, the code path is never reached. Existing deployments are unaffected.Testing
Tested with GitHub OAuth in a self-hosted Docker deployment:
OAUTH_USERINFO=https://api.github.com/userOAUTH_LOGIN_FIELD=loginloginfield is correctly extracted from the userinfo response,OAUTH_ALLOWED_LOGINSandLOGIN_PERMISSIONS_*work as expected.