Re: Gmail OAuth2 in git send-email

Eric Sunshine wrote:

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 2:09 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 12:02:08PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

quoted

But for users that use Gmail (like me), we must either enable 2FA and
generate app-specific password for use with git send-email

Is there a general problem with this approach? Gmail has been my
recommendation for everyone needing a free email account -- it's still
possible to configure it to be perfectly usable with patch-based workflows,
even if it has its own ideas about web ui treading.

The fact that Gmail forces folks to enable 2fa for app passwords is an added
bonus in my book. :)

The 2fa requirement is a problem for those of us who don't have
smartphones or SMS.

You don't need either of those with an app password:

  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833/sign-in-using-app-passwords

And of course you don't need them for the second step authentication
either, you can use any OTP client:

  https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras