A pop up keeping appearing in Ubuntu (running 12.10), asking for the password to my gmail account. The icon has a silver shield, and it is labeled Access Prompt.
The actual window has an image of keys on a keyring, says “Authentication request” in bold, and “Please enter your password for the account, [gmail address]”. It keeps saying my passwords are incorrect... I'm not even sure which account it's talking about. What is going on?
Evgeni Leshtanski's answer clued me in to what was really happening. The question isn't, "How do I tell some random prompt what my password is?" but rather, "What is going on?"
In my case -- and this probably affects a lot of people -- the underlying culprit was Empathy. I don't use Empathy, so I don't want it to authenticate to Google Talk on my behalf. Now here's where it gets interesting. When I followed Evgeni's lead and ran Online Accounts (under System Settings), it was completely unpopulated. That's because it auto-populates when apps that hook in to Online Accounts update credentials. Since I never filled in that Access Prompt dialog box, this never happened and I had nothing to change.
The key action that's leading this behavior on startup is that Empathy defaults to "Automatically connect on startup" even if you don't actually use it. So run Empathy, go to Preferences, and under the General tab, uncheck "Automatically connect on startup".
In my particular case, I had to also stop Evolution from checking my Gmail account before this dialog box went away completely.
Try renaming the file
~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf
It worked nicely for me. Thanks to this comment: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcr/+bug/1044549/comments/14
Your "Password was incorrect" problem is because "GMail" identifies "Evolution" as a less secure app, so doesn't provide authentication to the app. You can change this feature if you want, https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
But if you don't want to allow your email access to evolution, you can remove your gmail account in evolution by following these steps
This should remove your email account from evolution and no more signing in troubles anymore.
If it's for a Google account with two factor authentication enabled, generate a one time "Application-specific password" for it at the Google account security tab
I ran into this issue because of Google's Two Factor authentication. If you want to stop receiving this prompt you need to generate an application specific password from Google.
For instructions on how to create the app specific password follow this bad boy below.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
Once you've followed those instructions, grab the generated password, plug it into the prompt, and be bothered no more!
(This solution was used in 13.04)
Removing the *.source file(s) from ~/.config/evolution/sources did the trick for me - those dialogs are gone for good.
Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131506&p=12759547#post12759547
Though, in my case, this was probably due to a combination of the other answers (Google 2-factor auth) and the fact that I had upgraded from an earlier version of Ubuntu and the account configurations were left over.
That happened to me. You need to sign out of gmail and reboot your computer/laptop. Then sign in a it should work. Tell me if you have any problems😃.
I believe the problem is that GNOME Search is checking Contacts.
There is an option in Settings -> Search to deselect Contacts, and that should save the day.
The accounts.conf file is also used by the new Ubuntu online accounts configuration. The problem seems to be that after an upgrade the old entry from the original Gnome online accounts application is left. The new online accounts utility adds entries after the previous one which is the one causing the problem.
This is the old entry in my case from ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf:
[Account account_1388648527]
Provider=google
<email address hidden>
<email address hidden>
MailEnabled=true
CalendarEnabled=true
ContactsEnabled=true
ChatEnabled=true
DocumentsEnabled=true
Just editing the accounts.conf file and removing just this entry solved the problem. If you remove the file you will have to rerun the new online accounts application in order to recreate your new configuration.
