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diff --git a/doc/administration/auth/cognito.md b/doc/administration/auth/cognito.md index de5fa991abe..41e77c10e27 100644 --- a/doc/administration/auth/cognito.md +++ b/doc/administration/auth/cognito.md @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ The following documentation enables Cognito as an OAuth2 provider. ## Configure AWS Cognito -To enable the [AWS Cognito](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) OAuth2 OmniAuth provider, register your application with Cognito, -where it will generate a Client ID and Client Secret for your application. +To enable the [AWS Cognito](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) OAuth2 OmniAuth provider, register your application with Cognito. This process generates a Client ID and Client Secret for your application. Any settings you configure in the following procedure can be modified later. The following steps enable AWS Cognito as an authentication provider: @@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ The following steps enable AWS Cognito as an authentication provider: 1. Under **How do you want your end users to sign in?**, select **Email address or phone number** and **Allow email addresses**. 1. Under **Which standard attributes do you want to require?**, select **email**. 1. Go to the next steps of configuration and set the rest of the settings to suit your needs - in the basic setup they are not related to GitLab configuration. -1. In the **App clients** settings, click **Add an app client**, add **App client name** and select the **Enable username password based authentication** check box. +1. In the **App clients** settings, click **Add an app client**, add **App client name** and select the **Enable username password based authentication** checkbox. 1. Click **Create app client**. 1. In the next step, you can set up AWS Lambda functions for sending emails. You can then finish creating the pool. 1. After creating the user pool, go to **App client settings** and provide the required information: @@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ Include the code block in the `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` file: 1. Save the file and [reconfigure](../restart_gitlab.md#omnibus-gitlab-reconfigure) GitLab for the changes to take effect. Your sign-in page should now display a Cognito button below the regular sign-in form. -To begin the authentication process, click the icon, and AWS Cognito will ask the user to sign in and authorize the GitLab application. -If successful, the user will be redirected and signed in to your GitLab instance. +To begin the authentication process, click the icon, and AWS Cognito asks the user to sign in and authorize the GitLab application. +If successful, the user is redirected and signed in to your GitLab instance. For more information, see the [Initial OmniAuth Configuration](../../integration/omniauth.md#initial-omniauth-configuration). |