sync/chrome/$1 sign-in does not accept my correct Google password in latest Chrome Canary build for mac

[László]

Hi,

as simple as the subject line says. Though it did not start with today's builds. I use command line flags heavily, but I don't have time to experiment if anything would fix that. Thanks for any thoughts on this though!

Laszlo

PS: I tried my password 6 times, while the same worked for Google Dashboard at once...

Google Chrome	16.0.902.0 (Official Build 104253) canary
OS	Mac OS X
WebKit	535.6 (@96781)
JavaScript	V8 3.6.4.1
Flash	11.0.1.152
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_1) AppleWebKit/535.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.902.0 Safari/535.6
Command Line	/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary --allow-cross-origin-auth-prompt --allow-webui-compositing --apps-new-install-bubble --block-reading-third-party-cookies --cloud-print-delete-file --cloud-print-file --cloud-print-file-type --cloud-print-job-title --cloud-print-proxy-id --cloud-print-service --conflicting-modules-check --downloads-new-ui --dump-histograms-on-exit --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-accelerated-drawing --enable-accelerated-plugins --enable-accessibility --enable-autofill-feedback --enable-autologin --enable-click-to-play --enable-cloud-print --enable-cloud-print-proxy --enable-composite-to-texture --enable-connect-backup-jobs --enable-crash-reporter --enable-crxless-web-apps --enable-device-motion --enable-dns-cert-provenance-checking --enable-experimental-extension-apis --enable-expose-for-tabs --enable-extension-timeline-api --enable-fastback --enable-file-cookies --enable-fullscreen --enable-global-bookmark-menu --enable-gpu-plugin --enable-improved-download-protection --enable-in-browser-thumbnailing --enable-ip-pooling --enable-ipv6 --enable-lazy-background-pages --enable-mac-cookies --enable-media-stream --enable-memory-info --enable-monitor-profile --enable-nacl --enable-ntp-bookmark-features --enable-origin-bound-certs --enable-panels --enable-preconnect --enable-preparsed-js-caching --enable-print-preview --enable-resource-content-settings --enable-sdch --enable-search-provider-api-v2 --enable-shortcuts-provider --enable-smooth-scrolling --enable-ssl-cached-info --enable-static-ip-config --enable-stats-table --enable-sync --enable-sync-autofill --enable-sync-extension-settings --enable-sync-oauth --enable-sync-tabs --enable-sync-tabs-for-other-clients --enable-sync-typed-urls --enable-sync-search-engines --enable-synced-bookmarks-folder --enable-tab-groups-context-menu --enable-vertical-tabs --enable-video-fullscreen --enable-web-intents --enable-websocket-over-spdy --enable-webui-taskmanager --enabled --experimental-location-features --extension-process --focus-existing-tab-on-open --max-spdy-concurrent-streams --max-spdy-sessions-per-domain --no-events --no-proxy-server --no-running-insecure-content --ppapi-out-of-process --preload-instant-search --prerender --prerender-from-omnibox --purge-memory-button --register-pepper-plugins --search-in-omnibox-hint --start-maximized --sync-try-ssltcp-first-for-xmpp --use-more-webui --use-spdy --flag-switches-begin --apps-new-install-bubble --block-reading-third-party-cookies --enable-click-to-play --downloads-new-ui --enable-autologin --enable-nacl --enable-shortcuts-provider --experimental-location-features --enable-expose-for-tabs --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-lazy-background-pages --enable-panels --preload-instant-search --prerender-from-omnibox --enable-print-preview --show-autofill-type-predictions --enable-sync-search-engines --enable-sync-tabs --flag-switches-end
Executable Path	/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary
Profile Path	/Users/laszlosandor/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome Canary/Default

[László]

I have an update: I get further if I turn oauth off, then the old sync dialog asks for my password, accepts it, gets me further to ask an app specific password, which I duly enter, and I only need OK sync --- but then I get back to the dialog box I got with oauth right away, which now says that I already set up sync with "another version of my Google Account password". Another version of my single password? What is this?

[PhistucK]

I accidentally left chromium-discuss off the thread, it is now back as a CC recipient.

If you do not know what it is, you probably did not set it up.

A passphrase is another security measure for the Chrome Sync data. It is used to encrypt your synced passwords instead of using your Google account password, if you opt in for it.

☆PhistucK

2011/10/7 László Sándor <san...@gmail.com>

Sorry, what is a passphrase? I have my password, I can generate passcode with Google Authenticator (which was not asked in this case), and I have application-specific passwords set up on the web. I had no problem ever logging into other Google services, on the web or my iOS devices.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:45 AM, PhistucK <phis...@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you set up a passphrase? If so, maybe enter that instead of the app specific password.

☆PhistucK

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 13:22, László <san...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have an update: I get further if I turn oauth off, then the old sync dialog asks for my password, accepts it, gets me further to ask an app specific password, which I duly enter, and I only need OK sync --- but then I get back to the dialog box I got with oauth right away, which now says that I already set up sync with "another version of my Google Account password". Another version of my single password? What is this?

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[László Sándor]

This might be it though.

But I really don't recall ever setting this up. (And I am usually not that careless about passwords, esp. Google ones) There is no way to check whether there is any passphrase, is it?

On Oct 7, 2011, at 8:51 AM, PhistucK wrote:

> I accidentally left chromium-discuss off the thread, it is now back as a CC
> recipient.
>
> If you do not know what it is, you probably did not set it up.
> A passphrase is another security measure for the Chrome Sync data. It is
> used to encrypt your synced passwords instead of using your Google account
> password, if you opt in for it.
>

> ☆*PhistucK*

>
>
>
> 2011/10/7 László Sándor <san...@gmail.com>
>
>> Sorry, what is a passphrase? I have my password, I can generate passcode
>> with Google Authenticator (which was not asked in this case), and I have
>> application-specific passwords set up on the web. I had no problem ever
>> logging into other Google services, on the web or my iOS devices.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:45 AM, PhistucK <phis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you set up a passphrase? If so, maybe enter that instead of the app
>>> specific password.
>>>

>>> ☆*PhistucK*