Re: git-cl: Problems with Rietveld authentication

[Heikki Tauriainen]

On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 13:53 +0300, Heikki Tauriainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 10:01 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > 
> > > However, running "git cl upload origin/master" just keeps failing for me
> > > at the authentication phase with codereview.appspot.com – the script
> > > only repeats "Invalid username or password" despite the fact that I am
> > > able to log in to Rietveld (or to my Google account) via the web
> > > interface using the exact same credentials.
> > 
> > > Has anyone had this kind of problem before?  Is there something I could
> > > do to try and debug it, or work around it?
> > 
> > 
> > There was an earlier report where a contributor was using 2 factor 
> > authentication for their Google account.  Are you using simple 
> > username/password?
> 
> The 2-step verification is disabled on the Google account; username
> +password authentication is sufficient for the Rietveld web login.

Apparently the problem was that access to the Google account was not
enabled for "less secure apps" in the account's security settings;
git-cl worked after changing this option.  Sorry about the noise.

-- 
Heikki Tauriainen