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Are there any good 2FA applications for Desktop? Using the phone to authenticate every login seems very inefficient. Some of us do not like using the phone.
by tremarley 3y ago
Are there any good 2FA applications for Desktop?
Using the phone to authenticate every login seems very inefficient.
Some of us do not like using the phone.
- mhitza 3y agoI use Bitwarden for passwords and 2FA (browser plugin, Android app for mobile). Definitely not recommended by anyone security focused, but these 2fa are forced onto me by different platforms and not something I chose/care. There should be desktop authenticator software. If I can have one on Linux I'm sure all the other desktop OSs have at least 1.
- Zizizizz 3y agohttps://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp
- jonotime 3y agoI use keepass on phone and desktop
- alisonatwork 3y agoI use KeePass. It's a little bit cryptic to set up the OTP - you have to create an advanced field called TimeOtp-Secret-Base32 with the seed in it - but after that you just Ctrl-T to get the latest code.
- usr1106 3y agoI use my own 15 lines of Python code calling pyotp. At least for desktop means preferably CLI.
- patrakov 3y agoI would say that the "generic desktop app" approach is to be avoided. The reason is that there is a strictly better alternative that targets almost the same audience. By implementing a TOTP generator as a desktop browser extension instead, one gets visibility into which site the user visits, and can show only the relevant code, or, if there is none, a phishing warning. The users that are left behind in the browser extension approach are those who need TOTP for non-web things like SSH. Happy user of https://authenticator.cc/ https://authenticator.cc/