[PATCH v3] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
- From
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 7, 2021, 11:11 UTC
- Message-ID
- <274475559a6de9c95c9c6cd30b5d056a31cc2853.1610017875.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <20200829153920.17155-1-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.
Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> --- Range-diff against v2: 1: 2bcfd1403f < -: ---------- Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Mention less secure app access might need to enable. -: ---------- > 1: 274475559a git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
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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