GitHub

Registering PingFederate as an OAuth application in GitHub

To allow PingFederate to process social sign-on requests with GitHub, add PingFederate as an OAuth application in the GitHub administrative console.

Steps

  1. Sign on to the GitHub app settings page using a GitHub account.

  2. Click OAuth Apps.

  3. Click Register a new OAuth application.

  4. On the Register a new OAuth application screen, in the Application name field, enter a name, such as PingFederate.

  5. In the Homepage URLhttps://pf.example.com:9031.

  6. In the Authorization callback URL field, enter the hostname (or virtual hostname) and port of your PingFederate server followed by the GitHub Provisioner instance endpoint, such as https://pf.example.com:9031/ext/not used in this IK-authn.

    The default endpoint is /not used in this IK-authn. If you set a custom endpoint here, enter the matching value in the Authorization Callback Endpoint field of your adapter instance configuration in Configuring an adapter instance.

  7. Click Register application.

  8. On the OAuth application page, note the Client ID field, enter the hostname (or virtual and Client Secret) to use in Configuring an adapter instance.