[HN Gopher] Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by S...
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       Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-09-03 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | 486sx33 wrote:
       | Just another damn google profile that'll be "signed into" my
       | machine. I hate Google on outlook on Mac OS for this . It always
       | wants my web browser signed into my Gsuite account. Piss off
       | google
        
       | amaccuish wrote:
       | > Mobile Device Management platforms that configure IMAP, CalDAV,
       | CardDAV, POP or Exchange ActiveSync (Google Sync) are being
       | phased out as well
       | 
       | Hmm... No. ActiveSync remains available to Workspace (read "
       | Enterprise" customers), as well as IMAP, xDAV etc. The key part
       | is the pure basic auth, password auth, is deprecated. OAuth is
       | fine, and all these protocols support OAuth just fine.
       | 
       | (Of course, OAuth can also mean username/password auth, but it is
       | generally assumed that MFA comes in to play here).
       | 
       | Love the Register, but this poorly researched.
       | 
       | But also a massive problem for people who have scanners than send
       | stuff via SMTP, they now need to work via OAuth.
        
         | suprjami wrote:
         | > Love the Register, but this poorly researched.
         | 
         | I used to love The Register, but I sadly haven't seen a good
         | article from them in many years.
         | 
         | Everything that I've seen is clickbait bad opinion or just
         | outright wrong.
         | 
         | I now assume anything from them is rubbish and don't even waste
         | my time clicking the link, which is a very sad state for them.
        
       | hooverd wrote:
       | Scared me. I don't see anything about SAML being deprecated
       | thankfully.
        
         | amaccuish wrote:
         | Not sure what you mean, but if you're talking about auth'ing to
         | Google Workspace with an external IdP with SAML (here is being
         | talked about auth between the client and Google, like say with
         | IMAP, over OAuth, which in turn can use whatever, including
         | SAML), then no, you have nothing to worry.
        
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