Hi Lee, Well the main goal for gplaycli was to provide a noconf and very easy to use command line for downloading apks.
Creating a google account is for some people not the best idea, because they either disagree with their ToS or they don't want to give Google too many infos (AFAIK Google requires a phone number). I am totally aware of the issues that providing default credentials includes. Anyway, I am tired of resetting that default credentials' account password because a fool changes it. It's sad to see there are always such persons to mess everything up. The approach you give seems interesting, however the simplicity of usage falls down. But I'm ready to get rid of these default credentials. Maybe the github version could provide defaults credentials, and the debian one does not? I will need to investigate again on how to generate an AndroidID (Racoon does it well, Dummy Droid too, Hans-Christoph Steiner is on the way to package it for debian). To be honest, I'm out of time these days and I don't think it'll go better. Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards, Le 07/11/2016 à 17:11, Lee Garrett a écrit : > Package: gplaycli > Followup-For: Bug #823004 > > Hi Matlink, > > the way gplaycli is shipped makes it problematic for several reasons: > - Sharing account passwords violates Google's ToS > - Someone could abuse that account for spamming via gmail, prompting Google > to disable the account > - Everyone can change the password (just checked) breaking every installation > of gplaycli > - It probably makes it easier to track gplaycli users > (probably more problems if I'd dig more) > > So the right approach must be: > Use debconf to ask for google account credentials (no defaults), then > generate the Android ID by > some other means. AFAICS this currently means that another tools needs to be > included/packaged to > generate this. > > You probably know better what the general approach is, if you could outline > them I'd be more than > happy to help with implementing this. > > Bumping the bug severity accordingly. > > Regards, > Lee > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Matlink - Sysadmin matlink.fr Sortez couverts, chiffrez vos mails : https://café-vie-privée.fr/ XMPP/Jabber : matl...@matlink.fr Clé publique PGP : 0x186BB3CA Empreinte Off-the-record : 572174BF 6983EA74 91417CA7 705ED899 DE9D05B2
