GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 687690
Support X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD for GOA accounts
Last modified: 2012-11-09 12:34:11 UTC
GOA providers can now offer a PasswordBased interface in addition to OAuth / OAuth ones. See bug 687578 for the background, some of which would be familiar from Empathy's perspective. We can take advantage of this in GNOME 3.6 to solve the mess caused by GMail OAuth vs. GTalk OAuth2, where the user has to enter the password again for GTalk accounts. [1] Apart from that this would be useful to support other password based accounts coming from GOA in the future. [1] GMail has since move to OAuth2 and therefore this has been solved for GNOME 3.8 (see bug 652546)
Created attachment 228190 [details] [review] auth-client: Support X-TELEPATHY-PASSWORD for GOA accounts
Looks good to me.
Thinking about this, we still won't have an answer for those using 2-factor authentication with GNOME 3.6. The only solution for them is to use >= 3.7.x But atleast it would be an improvement for the others.
Pushed to master and gnome-3-6.This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.