Authentication failure in gmail. Pass it's okay

[jogarlo18@…]

I have added a jabber account hosted in jabberes.org and it works okay. The password is a [a-z] pass with no numbers

My gmail account is added correctly: account add jabber nick@… pass account #number set server talk.google.com

And then, for enabling it account #number on

and the output is: <@root> jabber(nick@…) - Logging in: Connecting <@root> jabber(nick@…) - Logging in: Connected to server, logging in <@root> jabber(nick@…) - Logging in: Converting stream to TLS <@root> jabber(nick@…) - Logging in: Connected to server, logging in <@root> jabber(nick@…) - Login error: Authentication failure <@root> jabber(nick@…) - Logging in: Signing off..

My pass is a very complex one with symbols, leters and numbers. I say it, because searching in google i have found an old bug where pass with [a-z][0-9] failed to log in

Some months ago my gmail account had only [a-z] characteres and it logged in without problems

Perhaps it is the same bug?

[Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@…>]

After some testing i could only reproduce it with passwords containing either spaces or the '\' character followed by whatever. If that's the case you can escape those characters with additional '\' like this:

my\password -> my\\password
my password -> my\ password

[wilmer]

Artem: Correct, and that's not specific to passwords but simply BitlBee command-line syntax - similar to any Unix shell. If your passwd contains special chars (like quotes, spaces, backslashes), you need to quote them like on most other command lines.

Original submitter: What kind of characters? Any of the ones mentioned above?

[wilmer]

critical? no way

Also, submitter hasn't responded since opening the bug. Nevermind.