Calendar and 2FA

🍱 Features & apps 📆 Calendar
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Just upgraded successfully to NC 11 and I’m pretty happy with it. Thanks everyone who made this possible.

I also love 2FA and enabled that too. But of course that broke the calendar for Thunderbird and my Android devices. As soon as I disabled 2FA again, the external devices can access the calkendar, but not when 2FA is enabled.

To be honest, I have no idea how this could be resolved. Maybe with a private token in the URL that allows access without the second factor?

What are others thinking about that?

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In your personal settings you have the possibility to create application specific passwords. Use those in case you have two-factor auth enabled.

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Well, that’s great. I’ve missed that option but now that I tried it, it not only works like a charm, it’s in fact really impressive. Thanks @LukasReschke

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Hello!

I have also enabled 2FA on nextcloud 11, and I am experiencing trouble with contacts/calendar/tasks on thunderbird 45.5.1. I am able to successfully use app passwords for my other devices.

When I try to add the CalDAV link for my calendar, I am not prompted for a username and password, and the calendar is created but turns itself off. I encounter a similar problem with adding the CalDAV link for a remote address book. It simply creates the remote address book without prompting me for a username/password, but never syncs.

Any ideas how to implement the app passwords here in thunderbird?

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Sorry for the spam, but this webpage helped me fix my password problem (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.calendar/IotqPVbVY4M)

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There are actually 2 “solutions” to the problem mentioned in you link @pmlauro and from my own experience, deleting the domain password from “Saved Logins” with a restart of TB seems to be the correct one. You find “Saved Logins” at Edit > Preferences > Security > Passwords