Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
No, this is incorrect. The 10 codes are just for accessing Gmail from the web. If you're using Outlook you generate a device-specific password and give that password to Outlook. Device-specific passwords don't expire, so you'd never need to change them.
Thanks for the clarification. That makes it even easier! S/S 'Listen Mom and Dad, your password is a randomly generated code of gobbledygook. That's the most secure and it's at least program - Outlook - specific. Just go with that for me, please.' Sip Jameson's (no, wait, summer, sip Hendrick's) and wait for their baffled response. Repeat.
Dad just picked up a Dell laptop ("the iPad is too difficult"), so I'm setting that up this weekend and may implement this.