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I just added my google account to gnome-online-account, assuming it'd use OAuth. I should mention I use two factor authentication.

I wrote in my google password + my verification key (but chose not to save it). After rebooting and reconnecting it said my account needed verification. I clicked the icon, clicked no "grant access", and got up my google login page, with the password apperantly already written in. I could click next and write in my verification code.

Is my password stored anywhere, or is authentication with a token still giving me a login page with the password apperantly written in when it needs to verify my account?

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    If you run seahorse, do you see that it stored your login?
    – Ken Kinder
    Jan 18, 2013 at 21:32
  • Good idea to check it with seahorse. If you reply to that as an answer I'll accept it. It does store it, and it does not store a token, it stores the actual password. I'm replacing empathy today...
    – neuron
    Jan 20, 2013 at 8:33
  • Okay, that was easier than I expected. FWIW, I believe the Gnome keyring is encrypted with your login password necessary to decrypt it.
    – Ken Kinder
    Jan 21, 2013 at 23:49

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You can use seahorse (the application) to see what login/passwords gnome is storing.

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    Leaving this as a comment and not as an answer - as an interesting note, I was not able to copy and paste my password from KeePassX into the prompt in Online Accounts for Google. After seeing this comment, I got the thought to paste the password into Seahorse, then try to paste from that instead. It worked!
    – flanger001
    Oct 14, 2020 at 13:13

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