[PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail

[PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail

[Denton Liu]

From: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>

Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
place, otherwise send-email fails with:

	5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
	5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials

Document steps required to make this work.

Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
---
Range-diff against v3:
1:  274475559a ! 1:  4303fab303 git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
    @@
      ## Metadata ##
    -Author: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
    +Author: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
     
      ## Commit message ##
         git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
    @@ Commit message
     
         Document steps required to make this work.
     
    -    Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
    +    Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
    +    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
    +    [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
     
      ## Documentation/git-send-email.txt ##
     @@ Documentation/git-send-email.txt: edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:

 Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 0a69810147..0db0783f2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
 	smtpServerPort = 587
 ----
 
-If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
+If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
 need to 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 have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
+you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
+https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.
+
 Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
 following commands:
 
-- 
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Re: [PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail

[Junio C Hamano]

Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
>
> Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
> needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
> place, otherwise send-email fails with:
>
> 	5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
> 	5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials
>
> Document steps required to make this work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
> ---

Thanks for tying loose ends.  Will replace.

> Range-diff against v3:
> 1:  274475559a ! 1:  4303fab303 git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
>     @@
>       ## Metadata ##
>     -Author: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
>     +Author: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
>      
>       ## Commit message ##
>          git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
>     @@ Commit message
>      
>          Document steps required to make this work.
>      
>     -    Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
>     +    Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
>     +    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>     +    [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
>      
>       ## Documentation/git-send-email.txt ##
>      @@ Documentation/git-send-email.txt: edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
>
>  Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> index 0a69810147..0db0783f2f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> @@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
>  	smtpServerPort = 587
>  ----
>  
> -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
> +If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
>  need to 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 have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
> +you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
> +https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.
> +
>  Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
>  following commands: