CAcaminanteblanco·Jul 24, 2026Submission
Pizauth: An OAuth2 token requester daemon
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pizauth
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ltratt / pizauth
pizauth
Command-line OAuth2 authentication daemon
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Command-line OAuth2 authentication daemon
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For OAUTH2, I recommend starting pizauth (https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth) as a user systemd unit. Then you can just do (eg. in mbsync) PassCmd "pizauth show accountname"
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesFor OAUTH2, I recommend starting pizauth (https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth) as a user systemd unit.
Then you can just do (eg. in mbsync)
PassCmd "pizauth show accountname"
In Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4eFor those of us with Unix-y mail setups the move to OAuth2 can be a bit tricky, but there are now several different programs to help (spurred, I suspect in no small part, by Microsoft/Exchange's stance). The ones I know about are:
Email OAuth 2.0 Proxy <https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy>; mailctl <https://github.com/pdobsan/mailctl>; mutt_oauth2.py <https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/contrib/mutt_o...> (some suggestion that it might not always work these days?); pizauth <https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth>; oauth-helper-office-365 <https://github.com/ahrex/oauth-helper-office-365>. Disclaimer: I wrote pizauth and it's just about to move into the alpha stage.
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