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diff --git a/metadata/news/2021-08-11-oauth2-creds-chromium/2021-08-11-oauth2-creds-chromium.en.txt b/metadata/news/2021-08-11-oauth2-creds-chromium/2021-08-11-oauth2-creds-chromium.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0d7a8aca1995 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2021-08-11-oauth2-creds-chromium/2021-08-11-oauth2-creds-chromium.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Title: OAuth2 Credentials Removed from Chromium +Author: Jason A. Donenfeld <zx2c4@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2021-08-11 +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. This week'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 +supply OAuth2 credentials manually, obtained by following the instructions at +[6]. However, even without supplying such credentials, Google's SSO should now +be working as expected. + +There are now two options for passing these credentials 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 |