prospects for simple authentication?

[vjcitn]

It would be really nice to encapsulate the authentication
event in a function that can be called with some simple arguments. If we want to know that the user has a given google identity, could we not query for a google authenticator value? User would have to know the identity and possess the device at which the authenticator app gets a token, and then they pass that token to the session.

[byapparov]

Are there any plans to support this? Basically it would be great to have a way to authenticate on non-interactive server via values stored in env variable without an auth file.

[hadley]

Do you have a specific example of how this would work with the google auth API?

[byapparov]

I think it should be very similar to what I can see on googleAuthR:

options("googleAuthR.client_id" = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID")
options("googleAuthR.client_secret" = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET")

I would set this to environment variables alongside the refresh token if that is possible. e.g. .Renviron:

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=<myclient>
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=<secret>
GOOGLE_REFRESH_TOKEN=<this probably will also be required>

[hadley]

But you don't need a client id and secret for bigrquery. They're already set inside the package.

[hadley]

The recommend way to log in on a non-interactive server is to use set_service_token()