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. It also imports a patch from Archlinux that enables users to pass the --oauth2-client-id= and --oauth2-client-secret= command-line switches to supply such 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. [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
