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