Always Get Incorrect Credentials

[snibbo71]

Trying to login for the first time. I've put a credentials.conf in the /data/fdroid directory with the correct credentials. The Docker log shows LoginError: Server Says 'Unknown_ERR'

Trying to login through the login screen always gives Incorrect Credentials and the same error in the Docker log

I've switched Less Secure Apps to be allowed on my Google Account but still no joy. The username and password are definitely correct.

Am I doing something wrong or is this app now broken?

Ta!

[Jonny007-MKD]

Hi @snibbo71,
I am using App Passwords as my original password was too long. Some error with key derivation etc. Perhaps you have the same issue?

[oova]

Hi,
I'm facing the same problem as @snibbo71 . Any insights yet?

I cannot use App Passwords as it requires 2FA and I do not want to give Google my phone number.

I'd appreciate any support. Thanks.

[Jonny007-MKD]

Is there any more info in the log that you could post?

[oova]

This is what I see in my docker logs:

Repo already initalized, skipping init
Checking config.py file
Skipping fdroid update
WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET /favicon.ico (217.254.xx.yy) 1.04ms
SecurityCheckError:
WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET /favicon.ico (217.254.xx.yy) 1.05ms
SecurityCheckError:
SecurityCheckError:
WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET /favicon.ico (217.254.xx.yy) 1.06ms
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET /favicon.ico (217.254.xx.yy) 1.04ms
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'
LoginError: 'server says: UNKNOWN_ERR'

Note that the security errors are most likely due to my restrictive web server config. I don't think they have anything to do with the authentication error.

Is there a debug logging I could enable to get more detailed messages?

Thanks for looking into this.

[Jonny007-MKD]

The SecurityCheckError is an exception thrown during login (see service.py and https://github.com/NoMore201/googleplay-api/blob/master/gpapi/googleplay.py#L235). In the current version of googleplay-api the exception text says you shall visit https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha. I don't know how this exactly works but perhaps it helps :)

[oova]

Thanks for pointing me to the unlock captcha page. I tried it and it did not help, unfortunately. Same error message.

[Jonny007-MKD]

Did you check that you have the most recent versions?

• googleplay-api 0.4.4
• playmaker 0.6.4 (best you take the code from PR First steps to adjust for GooglePlay API v3 #53)

[oova]

I'm using the latest docker image from https://github.com/NoMore201/playmaker. This might be out of date, though.

[Jonny007-MKD]

Yes, unfortunately it is. Can you please either use https://hub.docker.com/r/fellek/playmaker (creator of the PR) or build it yourself (it's as easy as checking it out and calling docker build with some arguments).

[oova]

Sorry for my late reply. Using fellek's docker image fixed the issue for me. Thanks for pointing me to it!

[Jonny007-MKD]

Great :) You're welcome!

[ElucGeek]

Hello, I'm not opening a new issue as this one is still open, I have the same problem, I never succeed to get pass the credentials. I tried with my main password, with an app password, from the web interface, each time I got a wrong credentials. I tried to create the file credentials.conf with the app password in it as instructed. I'm just not sure where to place it. I mounted my docker volume as /docker/Playmaker to /data, at least it can get the certificate from here, so it should work. I also tried to place the conf file in a fdroid subfolder so within docker it should be seen as /data/fdroid/credentials.conf . But still nothing work, I got the login page at after restarting the container. I used the Fellek Docker container, version is v0.6.4.
What can I try next?

[mlmss]

I also have the issue with wrong credentials. However, it just ocured recently, everything worked as expected before. I used the latest noMore201 docker image and also tried the Fellek image. But no luck, always the wrong credentials error. The error in the log is 'server says: BadAuthentication'. I've no idea what to do next.

[Findus23]

I also had the same issue that login didn't work at all, so I checked out the branch from #53 updated googleplay-api to 0.4.4 and it mostly works again. I can log in, manually download apps, but I am not sure if the update check is working.
(Just FYI, I am not using docker, but running it directly on my server in a virtualenv)

[mlmss]

Thanks, but how do I do that? I'm using docker and just build the fellek image again but no luck. Still "BadAuthentication". In my understandig if I build the docker image with "docker build https://github.com/fellek/playmaker.git --tag=playmaker:fellek" it should include the updated googleplay-api. Am I wrong?