Create Succesfull Authentication using Google OAuth client ID for a remote server accessible via SSH in a local machine

[mrgransky]

Assumption:

• Successfully created a Client ID for Web application in my Google APIs console.

• The downloaded client_secret_<really long ID>.json containing all authentication information for my application renamed to client_secrets.json and placed in my working directory.

Given quickstart.py:

from pydrive2.auth import GoogleAuth

gauth = GoogleAuth()
gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()

Authentication using my google account works fine in my local laptop with the text: The authentication flow has completed. on web browser and Authentication successful. in terminal.

Problem:

I would like to run this authentication in a remote server (SLURM super computer) without a graphical environment, which I access it via SSH command as $ ssh alijanif@puhti.csc.fi in my local laptop.

So I do the following, in working directory (containing client_secrets.json file) of my remote server after successful SSH login:

$ python quickstart.py 
Your browser has been opened to visit:

    https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=<my client id>&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8080%2F&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fdrive&access_type=online&response_type=code

Clicking on the provided link, fails to authenticate me using my google account, The connection failed on web browser!

in a web browser, I get the following link using that http://localhost:8080/ I provided in Authorised redirect URIs:

http://localhost:8080/?code=4%2F0AfJohXnpLFPEPEBOaYJNRUBB4eOMgtRGuWmLzN39mzH0XjcW8lno52y3PGhYZzbjorfqlA&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fdrive

What is the easiest workaround to fix this issue for remote servers?

[shcheklein]

@mrgransky you have two options.

• Copy the file that gauth.LocalWebserverAuth() on a local machine to the remote machine and use it there (you can point to a file via GoogleAuth() options).
• Create a service account (I would try that tbh, you are one step away from that). See this https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage/google-drive#using-service-accounts and this https://docs.iterative.ai/PyDrive2/oauth/#authentication-with-a-service-account