Did the one you hate include Duo? That’s the only one I’m using that is not TOTP based. But eventually I find a way to get the secret and generate the 2-factor

Did the one you hate include Duo? That’s the only one I’m using that is not TOTP based. But eventually I find a way to get the secret and generate the 2-factor myself. I agree with you about using a password manager to solve these kind of problems. One thing people don’t understand is we have collaborators that need to deploy to a Chile desert where the environment is so bad that your mobile phone would likely die there. (It’s not recommended to bring one anyway.) So all these solutions requiring a 2nd device, usually a mobile phone, is very annoying. The most annoying part is that these security policy is enforced by central university who don’t care about the requirements of a research project. But frankly, even if there’s a way to do it with a password manager (using site computing for example so no mobile is necessary), this is not presented as the way to use MFA, and some would consider it a breach of security.