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Figure 1: A screenshot of a project being edited in Overleaf Community Edition.
Important
This is a development version. If you simply want to run your own Overleaf instance with OpenID Connect support check out my fork of overleaf-toolkit.
I also changed the default port for the frontend from :80 to :8000. Don't go around using sudo for nothing folks.
This was a very quick fork because we needed OpenID Connect support. If you think some feature's missing feel free to contribute!
Note
This fork keeps both login methods available.
There is an extra route to
When you enable OpenID login via OPENID_ENABLED=true, the login page will look like the following image:
You can also access the "normal" login:
When a user logs in via OpenID Connect, two things may happen:
- If the user does not exist in the Overleaf DB it is created with a random password.
- If the user exists, the login continues as it normally would.
Does that mean that if I reset my password after creating a user with the OpenID login I can log in with both methods?
Yes.
This fork adds support for OpenID Connect based login. All you need to do is add the foolowing to your dev.env:
OPENID_ENABLED=true
OPENID_ISSUER=your-issuer
OPENID_AUTHORIZATION_URL=your-auth-url
OPENID_TOKEN_URL=your-token-url
OPENID_USERINFO_URL=your-userinfo-url
OPENID_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id
OPENID_CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secret
You can also change the default text for the login methods setting the following:
OPENID_LOGIN_TEXT=OIDC Login
OVERlEAF_LOGIN_TEXT=Default Login
Test this out by going into develop and running ./bin/dev --build!
I've also forkerd Overleaf Toolkit, take a look at that.
The code in this repository is released under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, version 3. A copy can be found in the LICENSE file.
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