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Internet Accounts keeps asking for Google password

I've enabled 2-step verification on my Google account.

I've had this account set up in Mail.app so it has an entry in my System Preferences > Internet Accounts

Now, with 2-step from Google, there are Application specific passwords. Mail.app can no longer use my Google account password. I had to log in to Google and create a password just for Mac Mail.app.

That worked just fine. Mail is now checking my Gmail for me.

When I open System Preferences > Internet Accounts and look at my Google account, it asks for my password. My Google ID password no longer works, as I'd expect. So I entered my Application Specific password for Mail.app.

This is the problem. It asks me three times, every time I want to look at my Google account details in System Preferences.

Sound familiar to anyone? Anyone solve this?

I tried creating an app specific password for System Preferences, but that didn't work.

Posted on Sep 23, 2014 11:18 AM

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Lykourgos

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Posted on Jan 27, 2015 1:24 PM

I just had exactly the same issue!

Some extra info:

Happened only in 2 of my gmail account (have several)
- One of them had 2nd factor auth enabled (account 1)
- The other one use simply a password (account 2)
Both accounts accept the password on the 3rd try
- for the account ,1 it is the application specific password
- for the account, 2 it is the normal account password
Moreover:
- account 1 uses: Mail, Contacts and Calendar
- account 2 uses only Mail
Right now the issue in both accounts is 100% reproducible
Account 2's password is rather long (>18 chars) and complex (Upper, Lower, Number and Symbols)
- This could indicate and issue, but I bet there many more user who had such extremes
- Even if that was the issue, account 1's application specific password is pretty simple and of a fixed size

Seems like a bug on Apple's side...

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Flipsz

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Jul 22, 2015 10:00 PM in response to Nicolas diPierro

Same Problem here. hope this comes fast

Jul 23, 2015 2:25 AM in response to Flipsz

Since the OSx update on the 10th June 2015 The problem has stopped all on it's own on my Mac Mini. If you are still having problems and have not processed this update I suggest you do and hopefully it should fix the problem.

sruegnit

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Jul 13, 2016 1:18 PM in response to Nicolas diPierro

Same problem as described here - I don't see any solution posted. My two factor Google access works fine in Chrome directly but I can't find any way to shut down these annoying pop ups

Internet Accounts keeps asking for Google password