• type: docs, documentation
• status: ongoing, open
• keywords: authentication, authorisation, docs, documentation
• author: @jnduli

Save a `local_settings.conf` file that has the contents:

SQL_URI = "mysql://user:password@localhost/db_name" # mysql uri
AUTH_DB = "/absolute/path/to/auth.db/" # path to sqlite db file
GN_AUTH_SECRETS = "/absolute/path/to/secrets/secrets.conf"

The `GN_AUTH_SECRETS` path has two functions:

• It contains the `SECRET_KEY` we use in our application
• The folder containing this file is used to store our jwks.

An example is:

SECRET_KEY = "qQIrgiK29kXZU6v8D09y4uw_sk8I4cqgNZniYUrRoUk"

export FLASK_DEBUG=1 AUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1 OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1 FLASK_APP=gn_auth/wsgi
export GN_AUTH_CONF=/absolute/path/to/local_settings.conf
flask init-dev-clients --client-uri "http://localhost:port"
flask init-dev-users
flask assign-system-admin 0ad1917c-57da-46dc-b79e-c81c91e5b928

• Run flask init_dev_users, which will create a verified local user.
• Run `UPDATE users set verified=1` on the sqlite3 auth database.

Rerun

FLASK_DEBUG=1 AUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1 OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1 \
  GN_AUTH_CONF=/absolute/path/to/local_settings.conf FLASK_APP=gn_auth/wsgi \
  flask init-dev-clients --client-uri "http://localhost:port_you_use_for_gn2"

This will update your clients list to have all the related urls we want.

When you see the error: `500 Server Error: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR for url: http://localhost:8081/auth/token`, restart the gn2 server.