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| author |  Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> | 2021-01-07 20:17:17 -0800 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-01-07 22:44:28 -0800 |
| commit | 155067ab4f3ec8d7e38f7f86a3fcb446030afaac (patch) | |
| tree | 654df5ba9073362d3da253a729c72886ed6c70f0 /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 2.28 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-155067ab4f3ec8d7e38f7f86a3fcb446030afaac.tar.xz | |
git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
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: |