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[David Barth <david.barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For people experiencing repeated authentication requests for their
google accounts, please note the following.

"Regular" Google accounts should not require you to login everyday. The
login authorization generally spans several weeks.

Google Apps for Business accounts, on the contrary, are designed to
check for your identity every now and then. If you are requested to
authenticate every day when you open your session, that is a requirement
set on your account by your provider (Google).

So when reporting issues, please specify whether you are using your
personal account, or a business one.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1029289

Title:
  Need to authorize my google account each time I boot the computer

Status in Online Accounts: Account plugins:
  In Progress
Status in Online Accounts: OAuth2 plug-in:
  Unknown
Status in Online Accounts: Sign-on UI:
  Fix Released
Status in “account-plugins” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “signon-plugin-oauth2” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “account-plugins” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “signon-plugin-oauth2” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Test Case] Sometimes after one day, sometimes after one week, the
  system indicator will turn red and the Google account will be marked
  as needing reauthentication. Time can vary, but any period shorter
  than one month is a symptom of the bug.

  [Regression Potential] Minimal: the change to the Google plugin (in
  account-plugins) simply changes the authentication method, in a way
  that is well-documented. The change in signon-plugin-oauth2 affects
  only those accounts/providers which use the OAuth refresh tokens --
  which is only Google, at the moment -- and in a way that can't
  possibly break any existing functionality; if the new code had some
  mistake, the refresh token would be unusable and the system would
  automatically fall back to requesting a new access token (which is
  exactly what happens now, with this bug).

  I'll try to find why the account-plugins package was not uploaded;
  indeed, both are required in order to fix this bug.

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