Login to you Google / Gmail account and click your username at the top. This will open a context menu. Click Account under your name.
Click Security.
— Steve Krause (@krauseSteve) August 13, 2012 Under 2-step verification, Click Edit.
In the Application-Specific passwords section, click Manage application-specific passwords.
Type the name of the application you want to generate a password for and click Generate password. This is also the place you can review what already has access to your account and revoke it if appropriate.
The password will be displayed in a yellow box (at the time of this writing). Copy it and close Done.
In my example I’m using this password for my Pidgin Chat client. Just paste it into the your client or phone and you should be golden!
Is this password somehow specific to one application+computer, in that Google knows if any other program or computer device tries to access your email via that password? Unless it has that knowledge, how is now having, perhaps multiple, application-specific passwords any safer than having your original single Google password? If someone learns any one of those passwords, don’t they now have access to your email and can use the “forgot password” function of other sites yo get all your other passwords and access? Comment Name * Email *
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