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Manage application passwords
This guide concerns the management of application passwords from the Infomaniak Manager.
Preamble
- Application passwords allow you to establish an authenticated connection between certain tools & services even if two-step verification (2FA authentication) is enabled.
- To synchronize, for example, contacts & agendas of your Infomaniak account with a mobile device or a messaging software/client, perform the actions presented in the guide below to generate a new password specific to this application.
- It is possible to generate several specific passwords (e.g., 1 for the contacts and 1 for the calendars) or to use the same one for synchronizing both services.
Create an application password
To do this:
- Click here to access the application password management on the Manager Infomaniak.
- Click on Generate an application password:
- Enter a name for the application password in the dialog box, then click on Generate an application password:
- Copy and save the generated application password in a secure but accessible location, it will no longer be accessible once the window is closed.
Revoke application passwords
In the same place, you can delete one or more application passwords when they are no longer needed:
- Click on the action button ⋮ to the right of each password and revoke it…
- or on Revoke All at the top of the table:
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