Empathy does not support Google Application- Specific Passwords
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Invalid
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Medium
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
Recently, Google introduced 2-Step Authentication[1] to make their users accounts more secure. This works by requesting that the user enter a randomly generated 6 digit number when they log in from an unknown computer for the first time. Since not every application supports this, they also introduced 'Application Specific Passwords' which is a randomly generated 16 character alpha-numeric one-time only password that it entered when connecting an application to a Google account for the first time.
Since I have enabled 2-Step Authentication on my account, I am no longer able to sign into Google Talk using Empathy.
[1] http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 8 13:13:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-07 (0 days ago)
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Incomplete |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
upstream was dup, fixing here