[solved] Google online account with two-step verification

Question

After upgrade, I can no longer log in to my gtalk account on empathy. The Online Account dialogue box gives the error "Expired credentials. Please log in again". But repeated log in comes back to the same message. Anyone experiencing similar problem?
Last edited by mathfeel (2012-11-15 19:42:38)

Answer 1

I realize this is marked as solved, but as none of the fixes worked for me, I figured I would put what I did to solve the problem.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688364#c2
In this thread, comment 10 gives instructions for using an application specific password instear of the regular google password that seahorse is storing.  I did this, logged in, and everything started working, with no errors.  Hopefully this will help someone else looking for an answer.
Ivan [reporter] 2012-11-15 16:39:40 UTC
However I found a way to fix, thanks @Ionut showing a path
In my GOA_ entry I edited 'password' field
So I removed my generic google password and inserted google application
password, I got in my 2-factor authentication page. So it's working fine now,
but it should be fixed I think ti work out of box
Ivan [reporter] 2012-11-20 03:20:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> Use Seahorse to look at your keyring and try to locate the entry associated
> with your Google account. (Hint: You can put "GOA" in the search bar to filter
> the view to show only things stored by GOA.)
>
> You will see that it has a dictionary. Locate the key called "password".
> Replace the value associated with that key with your application specific
> password.
Yes. Check the show password, you'll see a long GOA_ string. At the end you'll
see your google password. If you enable 2-factor auth and reproduces a bug, you
should make an application password in google account and replace your google
password in seahorse with it. Logoff and login again after solves the
"expiration" problem