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To me a weird part where these hit hard is on shared access to common resources. The two options I see are either: - Have shared access baked in the service
by makeitdouble 5y ago
To me a weird part where these hit hard is on shared access to common resources.
The two options I see are either:
- Have shared access baked in the service and each user has its own account, with its own auth means
- Go through elaborate schemes to somewhat share a single account's credentials.
Shared access with multiple accounts is currently a PITA in most services. Apple for instance still doesn't really understand how families work. Google is also suboptimal, even for cases like common photo libraries (not albums, whole libraries), and their weird separation of standard accounts getting access to all services under the sun, and GSuite/Workplace "second class" accounts doesn't help at all. I don't see Microsoft being better on most of its services, but I don't use them enough to have a strong opinion.
So the remaining way to handle these fairly common issues is to have a master account shared among two or more people, and most of these auth options rely on biometrics or fairly personal services. If that's the path forward, I wish they'd clear the surrounding issues first.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoYou can enroll multiple fingers, you can enroll multiple security keys, you can enroll multiple phone numbers, and you can create and share an account PIN. Choose any combination of these authenticators. Microsoft also has very mature permissions for all of their web properties like OneDrive and SharePoint/Teams. So you can also give people their own logins and then share stuff between them.