Bug 729118

Summary:	Empathy somehow messes up Google Talk password
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	eric
Component:	empathy	Assignee:	Brian Pepple <bdpepple>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	bdpepple, beland
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Description eric 2011-08-08 18:40:23 UTC

Description of problem: I am using the Google multi-factor authentication option which generates sixteen-character passwords for me to use on programs that can't support multi-factor authentication (like Empathy).  When I set the password in Empathy for that session everything works fine.  As soon as I restart Empathy it can no longer authenticate with Google.

I'm using other programs with the static passwords and have not had this problem.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.2-3.fc15


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set password.
2. Use Empathy
3. Restart Empathy
  
Actual results: Empathy fails to authenticate.


Expected results: Empathy authenticates with Google and all is right with the world.


Additional info: I haven't had a chance to really dive into this bug as much as I'd like to.  Please let me know if there is something I can check out to see if it's actually saving all of the password or not.

Comment 1 Christopher Beland 2011-09-12 15:49:00 UTC

I am experiencing a problem which I suspect is related.

I am connected to a Jabber server.  Based on the length of the password, it looks like Empathy is remembering my previous password, not my current one.  Authentication fails every time until I put in my current password again.  Then it only works during the current session.  I can't get it to forget my old password no matter what combination of clicking and unclicking "Remember password" and re-entering I have been able to think of.

empathy-3.0.2-3.fc15.x86_64

Comment 2 Christopher Beland 2012-06-02 23:27:01 UTC

Clearning all my Empathy preferences on disk and restarting did indeed fix this.

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