[PATCH v5 4/4] docs: make the purpose of using app password for Gmail more clear in send-email
From: Aditya Garg <hidden>
Date: 2025-05-28 07:05:44
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The current example for Gmail suggests using app passwords for send-email if user has multi-factor authentication set up for their account. However, it does not clarify that the user cannot use their normal password in case they do not have multi-factor authentication enabled. Most likely the example was written in the days when Google allowed using normal passwords without multi-factor authentication. This commit clarifies that app passwords are required and suggests using OAuth2 if the user does not want to enable multi-factor authentication. --- Documentation/git-send-email.adoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
index aff0861d29..99c126cd5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.adoc@@ -524,9 +524,12 @@ edit `~/.gitconfig` to specify your account settings: smtpServerPort = 587 ---- +Gmail does not allow using your account password for `git send-email`. If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you can generate an app-specific password for use with `git send-email`. Visit https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it. +If you do not want to enable multi-factor authentication, you can use OAuth2.0 +authentication as described below. You can also use OAuth2.0 authentication with Gmail. `OAUTHBEARER` and `XOAUTH2` are common methods used for this type of authentication. Gmail
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