[PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
- From
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 8, 2021, 04:17 UTC
- Message-ID
- <4303fab303fb59b67b8fda036256ae61a528dfc1.1610079311.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
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:
-- 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5ea