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No... These passwords will not work as login on Google's website. I just generated a one-time-use password. You can not use it to login on Google.com properties
by drivebyacct2 15y ago
No... These passwords will not work as login on Google's website. I just generated a one-time-use password. You can not use it to login on Google.com properties.
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Please use your account password instead of an application-specific password.
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And obviously it will then prompt for your OTOP. Again, this is absolutely no worse than someone getting your Google Account password anyway... and even if they do, they can only use it for select things that are allowed to be used via one-time-use passwords - it's just that we happen to be discussing email and IMAP is a rather large exception. Presumably this isn't the case for other Google services.
(Uh, guys, did you have a different experience or something?)
- mapgrep 15y agoI didn't say the passwords would actually log you in, just that they can be used across all services, they cannot be for example limited to mail as the person I was responding to stated. So you could use an app specific password across Google's various APIs and app accessible content - Talk/Gchat/Jabber, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Reader, and so forth, there's a fuller list in the docs for two-factor auth. (I have personally made app specific passwords for IMAP, Jabber and Reader, and I used to use a third party client to post to Blogger - the passwords are interchangable.) (I'm not the one who downvoted you, by the way, so I can only guess at why.)