On Sun, 2021-08-08 at 14:39 +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > v2 after brief IRC discussion > --- > > Title: OAuth2 Credentials Removed from Chromium > Author: Jason A. Donenfeld > Posted: 2021-08-08 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: www-client/chromium > > In March of this year, Google announced that OAuth2 credentials would be > revoked > for distros shipping Chromium. This was covered in multiple places at the > time, > such as [1,2,3]. Around that time, with 89.0.4389.82, Gentoo removed OAuth2 > credentials from its packages. However, they slipped back in shortly after. As > a result, some users [4] have found that recently Google's SSO does not > persist > between browser sessions; e.g. you have to log back into GMail every time you > open your browser. Today's changes [5] restore the old behavior we had in > March, > of not shipping Gentoo OAuth2 credentials. If you find that certain Google > services are no longer working, you may wish to set these flags, obtaining > credentials by following the instructions at [6]. However, even without > supplying such credentials, Google's SSO now should be working as expected.
Please split this into multiple shorter paragraphs. It's very hard to follow such a huge wall of text. > > There are now two options for passing these tokens to Chromium via > /etc/chromium/default: > > 1. GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET environment > variables: > export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID="<client-id>" > export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET="<client-secret>" > > 2. --oauth2-client-id and --oauth2-client-secret= command line switches: > CHROMIUM_FLAGS+=" --oauth2-client-id=<client-id>" > CHROMIUM_FLAGS+=" --oauth2-client-secret=<client-secret>" > > Alternatively these environment variables and command line switches may be > given > at the command line for ad-hoc testing. > > [1] https://archlinux.org/news/chromium-losing-sync-support-in-early-march/ > [2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 > [3] > https://hackaday.com/2021/01/26/whats-the-deal-with-chromium-on-linux-google-at-odds-with-package-maintainers/ > [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/791871 > [5] > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fce48ef271bbcaee9afdf0481294da167e665a9b > [6] http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys > -- Best regards, Michał Górny
