[Pidgin] #183: Authentication Failure Retry MISERY

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#183: Authentication Failure Retry MISERY
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  Reporter:  bmhkim        |       Owner:  rlaager
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  2.4.0  
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0    
Resolution:                |    Keywords:         
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by eddyp):

 Replying to [comment:1 lschiere]:
 > the 7th step is because you don't save passwords.

 No, is because pidgin has a bug. It saves passwords when the user said it
 must not.


 The behaviour should be reasonable, independent of the configuration. The
 reasonable behaviour would be to:
  - detect, if possible, that the server said "invalid credentials";
 require the password again
   - if is not possible, allow the user to retype the password by a 1 step
 action (i.e. a "retype password" button in the pop-up)
  - if the error is clearly of another nature than authentication failure
 (i.e. not a wrong password),  do not display the "retype password" button

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/183#comment:8>
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