On 4/13/24 01:44, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 04:50:13PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> said:
So the problem with github is they don't allow you to have 2FA on a
backup device (or rather, it *is* possible, but the process is
ludicrous[1]).  If you have your phone as second FA and lose it then
you have to immediately fall back to the piece of paper.

I haven't seen a site with TOTP 2FA allow multiple TOTP codes, they all
just store one.  It's trivial to scan the TOTP code into multiple
devices (depending on the software used, you can sometimes "export" a
TOTP code from one device to another by showing a QR code on the first
device), so that's hardly a "ludicrous" method.

I sometimes think how hard it would be to explain all of this to my
mother.  I don't understand why 2FA needs to be so obscure and clumsy
to use.

Rich.


You got a really good point there. All MFA implementations the industry has come up with are less than ideal in one way or the other.

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