Jottacloud can't be used from two machines with rclone 1.46

Suspected Bug
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Since Jottacloud now uses tokens with 1.46, two machines cannot upload anymore together because the second machine’s token generation causes the first machine’s token to be invalidated.

Repro:
Gen a token on machine A & start upload
do the same on the second machine

Notice that you will start getting 401 unauthorized errors on machine 1 as soon as you generated the token on machine 2.

Would it be possible to get the user/pass method back as a fallback? Or did I miss something and a second token is somehow supported?

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Are you copying the config from A -> B?

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Hi Nick, no I didn’t do that yet but will try to see if it makes a difference. I always used the wizard so far to either create a new config or let the token refresh after I got a 401 error.

Whenever I refresh the token on one of the machines, the second machine gets 401 errors.

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I checked both config files:

  • access_token is different
  • refresh_token is identical up to the first dot, then differs
  • expiry is different

Maybe it’s just that Jotta doesn’t allow multiple tokens to be active at once?

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Maybe important: Machine A is a NAS at home, machine B is a vserver so the IP that Jotta sees differs.

I tried to copy the token from Machine B (currently uploading data) to machine A now and so far it is running fine?! Everything I know security wise, it should be the exact opposite :smile: An identical token coming from a second IP should be rejected to prevent that tokens can be stolen whereas a fresh token should work.

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I forgot: I have a machine C with a third IP also uploading, but it’s running rclone 1.45 with stored user/pass, this machine is not affected at all and is running since several days.

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Strange, maybe this was just a temporary glitch at jottacloud?

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Hi, unfortunately not, the problems appeared after some hours again, I assume that the token expired, as soon as both machines refreshed their tokens one of them was unauthorized again.

I downgraded every machine but one now to 1.45 to be able to have multiple machines uploading.

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I think it would be worth you writing up your experiences on this issue, then the other developers will see too.

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There is a fix for this problem scheduled for the 1.47 release. You can try it out by using the latest beta from here: https://beta.rclone.org/

You have to re-create your remote. During the setup process you will be asked if you want to use rclone with Jottacloud on more than one machine. Answer with YES and a specific clientID/secret just for this machine will be created. This also means you can’t share that rcone.conf

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