Reconnecting

[Phil Smith III]

Thanks. Why am I installing intermediates? I should just need the root, and installing an intermediate that isn’t needed is a good way to get into trouble later on when the intermediate gets renewed on the server, but I have an expired, older copy.

 

I don’t use 2FA on Skype, but I should. I don’t use it enough/care about it enough to have done so. (I used to use it more, then they destroyed the UI, and now it’s usually easier to use something else.)

 

I will tinker. Installing latest Hangouts plugin seems easiest.

 

From: Eion Robb [mailto:eion at robbmob.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 4:54 PM
To: Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com>
Cc: Pidgin Support List <support at pidgin.im>
Subject: Re: Reconnecting

 

Hi Phil,

 

There's an updated intermediate cert for the Hangouts plugin, that the Google servers will sometimes send.  You can download it from source on https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/src/default/ or download the latest version of the .exe installer (assuming you're on windows) which has the intermediate certs bundled.

 

For the Skype plugin, you'll want to follow the flowchart https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb#issues - but the secret sauce is to turn on the "use alternate auth" setting the advanced account settings, which bypasses the whole "Magic T" thing.

 

Cheers,

Eion

 

 

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 04:36, Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com <mailto:lists at akphs.com> > wrote:

My ISP has occasional hiccups, and/or Google does -- I get certificate prompts periodically (every few days), which of course makes no sense.

In any case, I often go to a machine and find that it has disabled my Hangouts account. I know how to re-enable it, of course, but would prefer not to have to. I see no way to tell Pidgin to retry more times, or for longer; am I just missing it?

Then there's the Skype "Failed to get magic T-value", which I also get randomly...

Any suggestions appreciated.

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