keybase / keybase/client

FB verification 500s if denying "Posts" scope

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Description

I authorised Keybase to access my public data, but unchecked "Posts" because I'm making a public post — why should I grant access to all posts?

Somewhat unsurprisingly, this caused a "Error 500. Something is not right. We will look into it." error message. More unfortunately, there isn't a way to re-do the flow, from what I can tell?

Ideally Keybase should not need the "Posts" scope, but I can understand if that is hard due to platform limitations.

(btw, thanks for the great service!)

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Research direction

Start by locating the Facebook verification flow and how it handles a denied "Posts" scope. Reproduce the authorization with that scope unchecked, then verify it no longer returns a 500 and that the user can retry the flow.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
authentication, authorization
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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