App Engine, appcfg and saving uploading credentials

Question

On Linux, it seems that appcfg.py saves credentials when I use it to upload a new version of my application. However, this doesn't seem to happen OSX, and the password is asked every time.

On Linux, I have local installation. On OSX, I have used binary installer.

Is it possible to do something for OSX, so that it would save me the effort of retyping password all the time?

More info: Found zero sited .appcfg_cookies in my home folder. Obviously it is not saving credentials there, though trying.

Answer 1

You can use the OAuth 2.0 feature of appcfg to avoid the need to enter your login and password. It is documented for Java, Python and Go.

Instead of using your login and password to authenticate you, you will proceed once through an OAuth 2.0 grant flow in your web browser. The results of that grant will be cached for future pushes.

To use this feature, just add one option to your appcfg command: --oauth2. For Java, it looks like this:

$  appcfg.sh --oauth2 update ./web