gcloud stores application user credentials in an SQLLite database

[thrykol]

gcloud auth appears to no longer write a user's application credentials to application_default_credentials.json but instead to a user specific path under .config/gcloud/legacy_credentials/. I believe the change was done when the authors moved to use SQLite to manage the tokens.

I'd like to add support for using gcloud auth print-access-token directly but wanted to get feedback before committing to the process. Are there concerns or opinions about adding support for gcloud?

[djc]

How would it affect the current support? Would you replace it, or add it as an alternative option?

[thrykol]

I'd give priority to using gcloud but keep the current option as the last ditch attempt.

[djc]

Sounds sane to me. 👍

[hrvolapeter]

Sounds like great idea, I haven't noticed they changed ADCs in the newer versions