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# Register a Google Cloud app for OAuth2

The Google Cloud OAuth2 credentials FileAudit uses to send email through Google.

## Before you begin

You need this only if FileAudit sends email through a provider that requires OAuth2 and you use Google. It produces the **Client ID** and **Client secret** that you enter in the OAuth2 path of [Configure email settings](/fileaudit/docs/guides/configuration/configure-email-settings#configure-smtp-with-oauth2) Guide. 

Make sure you have:

- A Google account with the **Owner** or **Editor** role on the Google Cloud project you will use. Without one of these roles, the Google Auth Platform settings do not appear.
- Access to the [Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/).

## Register the app and create the credentials

You create the OAuth2 credentials in your own Google Cloud project, then copy them into FileAudit. Google maintains the console steps, so each step below links to Google's own documentation, which follows the reader's language.

1. Create a Google Cloud project, following [Create a Google Cloud project](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-project).
2. Configure your application on the Google Auth Platform (app name, user support email, audience), following [Configure OAuth consent](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-oauth-consent). This one-time setup is required before you can create a client.
3. Create an OAuth client of type **Desktop app**, then copy the **Client ID** and the **Client secret**, following [Create access credentials](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials#desktop-app).

> **Note**
>
> For a **Desktop app** client, Google does not ask for redirect URIs or JavaScript origins. Those fields belong to the **Web application** type, which FileAudit does not use.

## Use the credentials in FileAudit

Enter the **Client ID** and **Client secret** when you set up OAuth2 email, in the Configure SMTP with OAuth2 section of [Configure email settings](/fileaudit/docs/guides/configuration/configure-email-settings#configure-smtp-with-oauth2) Guide:

1. In **Mode**, select **OAuth2**.
2. In **Client ID**, enter the Client ID.
3. In **Client Secret**, enter the Client secret.
4. **Sing in**, with the account mail you used in **Sender E-mail.**