From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Mention less secure app access might need to enable.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 11:33:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwo1hi9nv.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200829153920.17155-1-vvavrychuk@gmail.com> (Vasyl Vavrychuk's message of "Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:39:20 +0300")
Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> writes:
> Looks like Google changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
> needs to be explicitly enabled if 2-factor authentication is not in
> place, otherwise send-mail fails with:
'send-email' I presume?
> 5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
> 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials v5sm13756502ede.13 - gsmtp
Is the v5sm1375... part stay constant that everybody would get the
same thing?
Otherwise,
... otherwise send-email fails with an error message from Gmail
server telling the user to "Learn more" at
https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials
would be preferrable.
> Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
> ---
> 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..06953fd1e0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> @@ -494,7 +494,11 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
> smtpServerPort = 587
> ----
>
> -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
> +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.
> +
> +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.
In 2020, we should probably list the instruction for those with 2
factor first and then give "less secure app access" as a fallback.
IOW, I'd suggest the order of these two paragraphs swapped.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-29 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-17 12:54 [PATCH] Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Mention less secure app access might need to enable Vasyl Vavrychuk
2020-08-17 17:16 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-29 15:39 ` Vasyl Vavrychuk
2020-08-29 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-08-29 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-06 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-22 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-07 11:11 ` [PATCH v3] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail Denton Liu
2021-01-07 20:37 ` Eric Sunshine
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