[Bug 754569] [NEW] Empathy does not support Google 2-Step Authentication

[Chris Wilson]

Public bug reported:

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://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-
for-your.html

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
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)

** Affects: empathy
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity

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Title:
  Empathy does not support Google 2-Step Authentication