How to Fix: NianticAuthConnect Password is required

Problem: You are trying to login to the forums with your ingress account, but the forum software tells you "You are trying to connect with a username that is already assigned to a user on this forum. If this is your account, please enter the account password".

Originally, I was able to login to the Ingress forums with my Pokemon Go Account, but not with my Ingress account. But I still could access the forum and also got the correct username assigned.

Then Niantic changed something to their login system, which led to the Problem, that I could not login to the forums anymore at all. Using the pokemon go account led to the login page again with the message that an error occured.

Then I tried to login with my original Ingress account (google login, different gmail address from my pokemon go google account) and I got the following error, see screenshot:


But the problem is: there is no password field and you don't have a password since you are logging in with Google login.

Solution:

0.) Preparation: Request a new Password at https://community.ingress.com/en/entry/passwordrequest

Check your emails, get back to the page, set a password, etc. etc.

1.) Login with your Google account, until you get to that page and the error message shown above

2.) Open the browser settings (F12 on Google Chrome) that allow you to manipulate the HTML and CSS of the displayed page.

3.) Enable displaying the password field as shown:

You need to remove the "display: none !important" from the password field (you can simply click the checkbox).

That will make the Password input appear.

Enter the Password, that you set in step 0.

Click "connect". After confirming, you will reconnect that account with your username to your current login method.

4.) Party!

If anyone needs help following these steps, i'll be happy to help, just message me or comment here.

cheers

Guschtel

Comments

  • Thanks!

    Difficult to understand why we need to modify the page to login, but thanks to your detailed description I was able to login again!

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