Re: Thunderbird & Lightning keep asking for Passwords

On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:14:43 AM UTC-8, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
> On 1/27/13 12:53 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
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> > On Fr. 25.01.2013 09:28, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
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> >> Asking for passwords again and again is a known issue, I hope to release
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> >> the fix for it soon.
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> > I've placed a screenshot of the login dialog to my Public Dropbox
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> > folder. Here's the link:
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> > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11228750/Thunderbird%20Lightning%20Repeated%20Login%20Problem%20-%20Google%20APIs.jpg
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> >
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> > The dialog merely mentions "Google APIs", which isn't very helpful. It
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> > would be very useful, if the dialog mentioned the *name of the calendar*
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> > so we know which login UN & PW is needed and whether it is a less
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> > important calendar we could Cancel out of to save some time and
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> > frustration.
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> That name is given by the server. If Google would consider adding the 
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> calendar name to the realm, then we wouldn't need the multirealm hack 
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> for Google API clients.
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> Of course we could see if its possible to add a rich dialog into the 
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> networking layer that uses the calendar name and allows remembering 
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> passwords either per calendar or per domain/realm, but this needs 
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> someone to take care of it :)
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> 
> Philipp


I'm still having this problem (TB 24.2.0, Lightning 2.6.4, Xubuntu 12.04).

Has there been any progress?

Lee Worden