{"thread":{"id":"54957","subject":"[PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail","startedAt":"2021-01-08T04:18:04Z","lastAt":"2021-01-08T06:46:23Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Denton Liu","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":4,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"413780","messageId":"4303fab303fb59b67b8fda036256ae61a528dfc1.1610079311.git.liu.denton@gmail.com","threadId":"54957","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail","fromName":"Denton Liu","fromEmail":"liu.denton@gmail.com","sentAt":"2021-01-08T04:17:17Z","receivedAt":"2021-01-08T04:18:04Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"liu.denton@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9620836?v=4"},"body":"From: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n\nGoogle may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access\nneeds to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in\nplace, otherwise send-email fails with:\n\n\t5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n\t5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials\n\nDocument steps required to make this work.\n\nSigned-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk \nSigned-off-by: Junio C Hamano \n[dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]\nSigned-off-by: Denton Liu \n---\nRange-diff against v3:\n1: 274475559a ! 1: 4303fab303 git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail\n @@\n ## Metadata ##\n -Author: Denton Liu \n +Author: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n \n ## Commit message ##\n git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail\n @@ Commit message\n \n Document steps required to make this work.\n \n - Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n + Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n + Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano \n + [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]\n \n ## Documentation/git-send-email.txt ##\n @@ Documentation/git-send-email.txt: edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:\n\n Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 +++++-\n 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt\nindex 0a69810147..0db0783f2f 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt\n@@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:\n \tsmtpServerPort = 587\n ----\n \n-If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will\n+If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will\n need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit\n https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.\n \n+If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,\n+you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit\n+https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.\n+\n Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the\n following commands:\n \n-- \n2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5ea\n\n"},{"id":"413783","messageId":"xmqq1rewj5a7.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com","threadId":"54957","inReplyTo":"4303fab303fb59b67b8fda036256ae61a528dfc1.1610079311.git.liu.denton@gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2021-01-08T06:45:20Z","receivedAt":"2021-01-08T06:46:23Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Denton Liu writes:\n\n> From: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n>\n> Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access\n> needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in\n> place, otherwise send-email fails with:\n>\n> \t5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n> \t5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials\n>\n> Document steps required to make this work.\n>\n> Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano \n> [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]\n> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu \n> ---\n\nThanks for tying loose ends. Will replace.\n\n> Range-diff against v3:\n> 1: 274475559a ! 1: 4303fab303 git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail\n> @@\n> ## Metadata ##\n> -Author: Denton Liu \n> +Author: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n> \n> ## Commit message ##\n> git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail\n> @@ Commit message\n> \n> Document steps required to make this work.\n> \n> - Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n> + Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk \n> + Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano \n> + [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]\n> \n> ## Documentation/git-send-email.txt ##\n> @@ Documentation/git-send-email.txt: edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:\n>\n> Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 +++++-\n> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\n>\n> diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt\n> index 0a69810147..0db0783f2f 100644\n> --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt\n> +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt\n> @@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:\n> \tsmtpServerPort = 587\n> ----\n> \n> -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will\n> +If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will\n> need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit\n> https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.\n> \n> +If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,\n> +you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit\n> +https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.\n> +\n> Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the\n> following commands:\n"}]}