Google Drive Connector 26.1
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# Configure OAuth Authentication

You must configure OAuth authentication so that the connector can authenticate with Google Drive. Use one of the following procedures:

- Retrieve Information from a single Google Drive
- Retrieve Information from G Suite Users

## Retrieve Information from a single Google Drive

To configure OAuth authentication

1. Open the folder where you installed the connector.
2. Open the file `oauth_tool.cfg` in a text editor.

3. In the `[Default]` section, set any SSL or proxy settings that are required to access the repository:

   `SSLMethod` | The version of SSL/TLS to use.
   `ProxyHost` | The host name or IP address of the proxy server to use.
   `ProxyPort` | The port of the proxy server to use.

   For example:

       SSLMethod=NEGOTIATE
       ProxyHost=10.0.0.1
       ProxyPort=8080

4. In the `[OAuthTool]` section, set the following parameters:

   `AppKey` | The client ID that you obtained when you set up the OAuth application.
   `AppSecret` | The client secret that you obtained when you set up the OAuth application.

   Do not modify the other parameters in this section.

5. Open a command-line window and run the following command:

   `oauth_tool.exe oauth_tool.cfg OAuthTool`

   Your default web browser opens to the Google Drive web site. The web page asks you to authorize the connector to access Google Drive.

6. Log in and grant consent.

   The OAuth tool creates a file named `oauth.cfg`, which contains the parameters that the connector requires to authenticate with Google Drive. When you configure the connector, import the parameters from `oauth.cfg` into your task configuration. For more information about including parameters from another file, see Include an External Configuration File.

7. You can now configure a task to retrieve data from Google Drive. See Use the Connector.

## Retrieve Information from G Suite Users

When you created a service account for accessing information from G Suite users (see Before you Install the Connector), Google provided a JSON file. The file contains various properties, including `private_key` and `client_email`. You must use these properties with the OAuth configuration tool to produce an OAuth sites file that the connector requires to access the information from users in the G Suite domain. After you complete the following procedure, the JSON file is no longer required.

To configure OAuth authentication

1. Open the folder where you installed the connector.
2. Open the file `oauth_tool.cfg` in a text editor.
3. In the `[GoogleServiceAccount]` section, find the parameter `CustomJson`.

4. Replace the strings `<client_email>` and `<private_key>` with the corresponding property values from the JSON file provided by Google.

   The value for the private key property should include the `-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----` and `-----END PRIVATE KEY-----` delimiters, and should include any newline (`\n`) characters. For example:

   `CustomJson={"GoogleServiceAccount":"myaccount@myproject.iam.gserviceaccount.com","GoogleServiceAccountPrivateKey":"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nBASE64\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"}`

5. From the command line, run the following command. The arguments to this command are the name of OAuth tool configuration file and the relevant section name:

       oauth_tool oauth_tool.cfg GoogleServiceAccount

   The OAuth tool creates (or modifies) the file `oauth2_sites.bin`, to store the private key encrypted against the specified `SiteName`. It also creates a file named `oauth.cfg`. This contains the configuration parameters required by the connector to authenticate with Google Drive. You can import the contents of this file into the connector's configuration file with the following syntax:

       [MyTask1] < "oauth.cfg" [OAUTH]

   For more information about including parameters from another file, see Include an External Configuration File.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Google Drive Connector 26.1

Topic Title: Configure OAuth Authentication