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0 pointslolsal5y ago0 comments

Can you educate me on what you mean by Google accounts only? I thought Google auth was just OAuth.

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They have chosen to have their site or app only allow login with Google accounts, they don't support any other form of authentication.

It's a choice they made, nothing specific to Google or OAuth.

I use the Google sign in javascript:

There may be other options if you want to mess with oauth yourself, but this one is pretty near zero effort.

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They have chosen to have their site or app only allow login with Google accounts, they don't support any other form of authentication.

It's a choice they made, nothing specific to Google or OAuth.

I use the Google sign in javascript:

There may be other options if you want to mess with oauth yourself, but this one is pretty near zero effort.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse