[qutebrowser] Log in to Google Account using qutebrowser

Kevin Ashley Kevin.Ashley at practicemax.com
Wed Dec 4 03:16:39 CET 2019


The following links may be of use:

1 - Comment from google security about preventing MITM
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-against-man-in-middle.html

2 - Reddit thread indicating someone else resolved this by adjusting their google account's "less secure apps" security setting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/cyb1wi/cant_sign_into_google/

3 - Documentation of the "less secure apps" security setting on your google account:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255



Thank you,
Kevin



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From: qutebrowser <qutebrowser-bounces at lists.qutebrowser.org> On Behalf Of Javier Ayres
Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 18:26
To: Denis Khizhniak <4denis.kh at gmail.com>
Cc: qutebrowser <qutebrowser at lists.qutebrowser.org>
Subject: Re: [qutebrowser] Log in to Google Account using qutebrowser

I think you did everything right, it just seems that this check is not based on the user agent.

If you want to make sure: find one of those pages that tell you your user agent, add a line in your config.py with the page's domain, visit it and check that it returns the user agent you wrote.

2019-12-03 15:35 GMT-03:00, Denis Khizhniak <4denis.kh at gmail.com>:
> HI Javier,
>
> Thank you for the tip. I'm new to qutebrowser and may have done
> something wrong.
> I've created the config.py file. Page *qute://version* says that is
> has been loaded.
> I have copied your lines and added one for '*.google.com', but with no
> success.
>
> Could you please point me in the right direction?
>
> вт, 3 дек. 2019 г. в 17:48, Javier Ayres <javierayres at gmail.com>:
>
>> Could this be solved with custom user agents? I have the following
>> lines in my config.py:
>>
>> ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 ' \ '(KHTML,
>> like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36'
>> config.set('content.headers.user_agent', ua, '*.whatsapp.com')
>> config.set('content.headers.user_agent', ua, '*.slack.com')
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 12:40 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Denis,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Denis Khizhniak wrote:
>>> > I would like to switch to qutebrowser from Chromium but I can't
>>> > log in
>>> to
>>> > my Google account.
>>> > Every time I try I receive this message:
>>> >
>>> > Couldn't sign you in
>>> > You are trying to sign in from a browser or app that doesn't allow
>>> > us to keep your account secure.
>>> > Try using a different browser. Learn more
>>> > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.goog
>>> > le.com_accounts_answer_7675428-3Fhl-3Den&d=DwIFaQ&c=CGMgyzKYjHNQIm
>>> > UEHNe2B8lDgzoGYXpYQgjl1xrjsdI&r=Zv4I5vLgKKLdEfoJPpseR6EJ8k97HqLh3U
>>> > Bs2iSFH-8&m=5FUQMHpcVz2D8xnYlx9U0_W6PvdDwR35UAk4HHH0Sd0&s=ER9yxyXH
>>> > smfPven-KFz2rdKbq37LyLG88yzTVLXzXcc&e= >
>>> >
>>> > Could you please assist with this?
>>> > I have already tried to change *headers.user_agent* with no luck.
>>> > Do you have any workarounds?
>>>
>>> This is a change by Google, targetting applications which aren't
>>> browsers but ask the user to sign in to their Google Account:
>>>
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__security.google
>>> blog.com_2019_04_better-2Dprotection-2Dagainst-2Dman-2Din-2Dmiddle.h
>>> tml&d=DwIFaQ&c=CGMgyzKYjHNQImUEHNe2B8lDgzoGYXpYQgjl1xrjsdI&r=Zv4I5vL
>>> gKKLdEfoJPpseR6EJ8k97HqLh3UBs2iSFH-8&m=5FUQMHpcVz2D8xnYlx9U0_W6PvdDw
>>> R35UAk4HHH0Sd0&s=AVr5ChWRfe3pTcF6gNDeWy0RFpOprQAhc42XHAKYXuE&e=
>>>
>>> I've heard about it before:
>>>
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reddit.com_
>>> r_qutebrowser_comments_cyb1wi_cant-5Fsign-5Finto-5Fgoogle_&d=DwIFaQ&
>>> c=CGMgyzKYjHNQImUEHNe2B8lDgzoGYXpYQgjl1xrjsdI&r=Zv4I5vLgKKLdEfoJPpse
>>> R6EJ8k97HqLh3UBs2iSFH-8&m=5FUQMHpcVz2D8xnYlx9U0_W6PvdDwR35UAk4HHH0Sd
>>> 0&s=acJWwu-D0-044_SVEIvOTG3xncJRfWBT8841GcqIE8o&e=
>>> but it seems to come and go, and I've never seen it with my own
>>> account so far.
>>>
>>> Not much qutebrowser can do I guess - you might want to contact
>>> Google in some way, but... good luck with that.
>>>
>>> Florian
>>>
>>> --
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>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Denis Khizhniak
>


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