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Martin Moops
Martin Moops

Reputation: 195

Google Developer Console does not give password when creating Service Account

Overall goal is trying to access (my own) Google Sheets with a server-side PHP application (not for sheets owned by individual app visitors). For this I'm hoping to use https://github.com/asimlqt/php-google-spreadsheet-client, which mentions that it doesn't handle the OAuth2 stuff, for which I can use https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client.

So in trying to follow https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/php/auth/service-accounts , it says (step 5):

The Console shows your private key's password only at this initial moment of service account creation--the password will not be shown again

However when I do those steps, it sends me a .json (with private_key_id, private_key, client_email, client_id, type), but at no point does it show me any kind of password. I have tried this with both Firefox and Chromium, tried deleting my old Service Account, making a new Service Account. Is there something else I need to enable on my Developers Console? or something else that I'm missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 166

Answers (1)

nonaxanon
nonaxanon

Reputation: 247

When you create a service account on the Google Api Console, usually, the file randomname.p12 will get downloaded automatically, and the password for this file will be notasecret but, if you are authenticating using the service account i beleive you dont need the password, even tho i am using it, see here check out bram answer he is authenticating using a service account, which might be what you are looking for

Upvotes: 0

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