This is my answer to a Question on Support site for LampCMS project
So it turned out that LinkedIn has updated their oauth based authentication/authorization API
It now requires to ask for specific permissions. I am already working on updating our LinkedIN integration script.
The one good news about this is that now LinkedIN shares user's email address with the API client. So basically the popup permission window tells user that the Applications wants to access their profile, get their email address and post to LinkedIN on their behalf. User can agree or decline.
Having email address provided by the API makes it easier to register new user - we no longer need to use the extra step that we used before to ask user for their email address right after the Join with LinkedIN was completed.
Also knowing the email address during the Sign In with Linked IN can help determine if the user with this email address already registered on our site, in which case we will just connect their existing account with their LinkedIN account.
I'm working on having the updates ready. Will probably take about a week to make changes and test them.
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