Help: Required to Re-Authenticate with Google Every Time Thunderbird Launched

[KrisKros]

This issue has occurred since Provider 1.0 was rolled out, and continues with 1.0.3.

Is it normal that every time I launch Thunderbird, I get a pop-up window with a Google Sign-In page followed by a confirmation to allow Provider to access my Google account?

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Even though I have signed in and accepted, I have to go through this process every time Thunderbird is launched.

I've checked my Google Account, and Provider is listed as an application that has permission to access my calendar, so I don't understand why it keeps asking to re-confirm this.

[Konstantin Svist]

Same here! Very annoying :(
One workaround: ignore the google login window, just authenticate with regular [master] password. Calendar shows up, but may be initially disabled. Possibly due to Thunderbird authenticating to get email..

[CSC]

Had the same problem, using 1.0.3.  Fixed problem by:

1. In Thunderbird/Lightning, remove Google calendar
2. Go into Google Account Permissions: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions
3. Revoke access for Provider for Google Calendar
   
4. In Thunderbird/Lightning, add Google calendar, sign in and accept permissions.
   

[KrisKros]

Strange, I followed your steps and the issue is still there. I also tried by closing down thunderbird before re-adding (after step 3).

[Michael Beatty]

I have the same issue.  Which is even more of a hinderance since I also have 2-step verification.  Every day, sometimes randomly in the middle of the day.  I have to reauthenticate, wait for a text message and enter that too.  Hope this gets fixed so that at the very least, the login will remember that this computer is an authorized user and not require me to reverify.

[Philipp Kewisch]

Could you share some debug logs from when the login dialog just appears? I would be interested to figure out in which case its removing the token. Have you changed any security options related to passwords?

Philipp

[KrisKros]

Hey Philipp,

No changes have been made to the security options, and I can see the Google Calendar OAuth Token saved in my passwords. I tried removing that, removing permissions from Google for Provider to have access to my account, deleted the Google Calendar, made sure Provider was up-to-date, shut down and re-added my Google Calendar. That didn't work unfortunately.

Do you have any tips on how to view the dubug logs so I can post here for you? I searched Google but came up short.

Thanks!

[Udo Schernikau]

Hallo,

bei mir hat das nicht funktioniert!

Es kommt immer noch die Aufforderung das Passwort einzugeben.

Gibt es eine andere Lösung?

[Julian Sikorski]

Happens to me as well, oddly enough only under Windows (Fedora worked fne last time I checked). Error console is blank, should I increase the verbosity level somehow?

Best regards,
Julian

[Marcin Górecki]

I have exactly the same issue and it is a show stopper for me. I have imported 4 calendars and I'm using 2 step authentication. I hope this will get fixed soon.

[Jeromy Layne]

Same here! 

 Error Console shows "No access to xxxxxxxxx, have to renew token"...

 I would really like to know if this is because of Google or Provider. Because the authentication from Google has been granted. Provider is in the app list of access granted applications. And i am not running 2-step authentication.

[Brian Fields]

I'm having the exact same issue.  I'm able to authenticate fine and pull the calendars up, but every time I restart Thunderbird I have to re-auth.  The first dialog, I put my username and password in, and it works, and then I have to auth each and every calendar I selected.

[Brian Fields]

I think I fixed it on my computer:

I removed the calendars, removed the addon, restarted Thunderbird.

Then, I went into Tools, Options, Advanced, Config Editor

Searched for calendar.google, and the reset everything in there to default.  It appears I had an old account in there, perhaps from an older version of the Google Provider.

Click OK, close everything out, restart Thunderbird again (to be safe)

Re-install provider for google calendar.  Re-set up my calendars, and everything worked fine.

[Andreas B]

Hello Philipp,

I am having the same problem now, can you please give me a hint how to get these debug logs? I only could start the error console after starting thunderbird and at this moment the error did already happen (The google auth window popped up, one for every calender) I did not habe problems with your great plugin until I started sending invitations from my work accound (not Google) using Outlook 2007 to my private google account. If one of this events on were overdue I could not remove them from the Thunderbird remembering list as the google calender switched to an error state after I tried to remove the event. To test if this is a problem with my installation I followed the guide on your plugin page https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-calendar/reviews/666512/
After that complete reinstall and cleanup the problem with the login credentials appeared and now I have to sign in at every startup. I am more than happy to help you out with debug logs and tests. I am using a Linux installation at the moment if that matters.

Andreas

[Götz Freytag]

This has worked for me. Thanks, Brian!

[Heidi Hafner]

I just downloaded Thunderbird 38.0.1 two days ago. I haven't used Thunderbird in 10 years or more and now I'm back using it. I really liked that it would sync with my google calendar. So, I set it up to sync with my Personal, Birthdays, & Holidays calendars. They are all in the same google account. Every time I start up Thunderbird, I have to go through half a dozen login screens where I am required to re-authenticate! Each screen that pops up has to have the password entered twice! I assume that is because I have my google account set up for 2-step authentication. However, once I enter my authentication code, I shouldn't have to re-enter it or try my password twice. Isn't OAuth supposed to remember your login creds so you don't have to login again? I also assume that I've got 5 or six of these login screens because I've got 3 or 4 different calendars... but... they're all in the same account. So it doesn't make any sense. This is frustrating as hell! I have better things to do with my time. How can this be fixed? Since this is a clean install there shouldn't be a need to uninstall and reinstall.

Please help.

Thank you,

Heidi Hafner

[ane...@gmail.com]

not work no me, provider 1.0.4

[David Wåhlander]

Brian,

I also run into this annoying issue when the Ligtning functionality was added into Thunderbird recently. I added 12 calendars from one account and every time I started Thunderbird I got 12 pop-ups to login to my account. There were also some variation to the behavior of the  pop-ups; some required me to enter the email address, some already had it entered, Some I had to enter email and password twice, some only once (I do not have two-step auth.!). Some I had to enter email on one screen, and password on the next, while other had two fields on the same screen. After trying a lot of things with no success I was just about to remove the calendars for good when I found your tip here :-)

I simplified the procedure a bit, and this worked for me:
I did not remove and calendars or the plug-in. I just go into Tools, Options, Advanced, Config Editor. Write "google" in the search box and there are a number of entries called "calendar.registry.xxxxx". For each of these I right clicked and selected reset to defaults. This removed all my calendars from the view. But when re-entered via the New Calendar etc. I had to enter my authentication only once for all my calendars.
No need to sign in again every time I restart Thunderbird and now it works perfectly :-)

Thanks for leading me to this solution!

/David

[Ari Sovijärvi]

I've had the "1 authentication pop-up per subscribed calendar"-problem since the add-on version 1.0 and I've tried everything so far listed in this post. After I've removed all the calendars and try to add a new one, I go the steps from "On the network" -> "Google calendar" to a screen that says "Locate your calendar".

It has one entry field, which is empty and a radio button next to it. If I hilight the field, the "Next" button gets grayed out. If I press the Next-button, I usually get an empty list of calendars.

If tried again, I at times get the Google login screen, after which the calendars are listed, but then if I choose any of them, I get as many new login pop-ups as the calendars I checked. After restarting TB the same amount of login pop-ups appear again.

[Andriy Bilous'ko]

Worked for me.
Thanks, David.

пятница, 31 июля 2015 г., 11:56:35 UTC+3 пользователь David Wåhlander написал:

[Philipp Kewisch]

Hi Folks,

it seems there are at least three different issues in this thread. If you are still experiencing issues, please create a new thread.

1) If you have multiple master password prompts, try the Startupmaster extension

2) If syncing is dead slow, please unsubscribe from the "Birthdays" calendar until the 1.0.5 update.

3) If you are getting the full login dialog with user, password, and granting privileges on every startup, please create (one) new thread. This has been reported more than once but I cannot reproduce. Please add as much information as possible about your current situation and maybe debugging logs from the startup run. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#Enabling_Debugging

Philipp

[Philipp Kewisch]

On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 9:02:07 AM UTC+1, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

3) If you are getting the full login dialog with user, password, and granting privileges on every startup, please create (one) new thread. This has been reported more than once but I cannot reproduce. Please add as much information as possible about your current situation and maybe debugging logs from the startup run. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#Enabling_Debugging

Ok, no need to create a new thread. You can mention it in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/provider-for-google-calendar/3Wv_Up0k-H8

:-Philipp

[Francesco Munafò]

To reproduce it, create a new calendar (rough translation from Italian, exact terms may vary):

File->New->Calendar..->From the network ->Continue->Google Calendar->Continue

Here select the field radio button and leave the field *BLANK* (empty).

At this point you should see google logins (once first, then for every calendar), but then they are repeated at every startup, and for every calendar.

[Brian Bogdan]

This fix worked for me as well! Thanks! Was so annoying!