LibreOffice access to Google Drive asks for authentication 6-digit pin
When I try to save a document to my google drive account, after adding google credentials I'm asked to put a 6-digit authentication pin. How do I get it?
thanks!
Good question.
I've decided to make the switch to LibreOffice (on Windows 10) from Office. I tried to connect to my Google Drive (which has 2FA) and this is the same problem that I encountered. All in my first ten minutes. Worse, is that though this question has received over 3,000 views, not one person from the developers or the user community is willing to offer an answer. In all, not the greatest welcoming experience or first impression for a new user.
Any ideas? Anyone?
There is a work around...but you must have access to your Google Drive from within your computer's directory system.
If you have, then you can ignore the seeming non-functionality of 'Save Remote' and instead simply select 'Save As' and locate the Google Drive directory as the destination for your saved file.
This is a two step/phase verification. You must provide your mobile number to Google for them to send you a SMS text message to your mobile phone in order for you to authenticate on the system. Either the number on your account is incorrect or the phone number does not accept SMS messages. You can set this up on multiple social sites such as Facebook, Intstagram, LinkedIn, etc. Which is a good idea to keep your accounts your own.
I gave Google my mobile number, and let turned on 2FA with it. It does not send the confirmation texts though. I also tried using Google Auth. I got it to prompt me for the auth code from Google Auth, when signing in to gmail on the desktop computer web browser. That confirms that it was 2FA was successfully turned on. When I try to save the file to the remote drive, LibreOffice says the drive is invalid. LibreOffice 6.2.8.2-2.fc30 on Linux
Tried both Google Drive and OneDrive, got the same error "invalid device" on both. I don't have time for this. Bye bye LibreOffice.