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docs: scaffolder: improve docs to setup the RepoUrlPicker authentication feature
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Johan Haals
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@@ -397,6 +397,9 @@ There's also the ability to pass additional scopes when requesting the `oauth`
token from the user, which you can do on a per-provider basis, in case your
template can be published to multiple providers.
Note, that you will need to configure an [authentication provider](../../auth/index.md#configuring-authentication-providers), alongside the
[`ScmAuthApi`](../../auth/index.md#scaffolder-configuration-software-templates) for your source code management (SCM) service to make this feature work.
### Accessing the signed-in users details
Sometimes when authoring templates, you'll want to access the user that is running the template, and get details from the profile or the users `Entity` in the Catalog.