• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    PSA, don’t use Microsoft authenticator. It’s easy to accidentally wipe your cloud backup and lose all your authenticator codes when switching devices

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        9 months ago

        I think you can use standard TOTP regardless if you add TOTP as an option in the authentication methods on your account page. At least I did and the system has yet to complain.

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      9 months ago

      Is there actually any way to export the secrets from MS authenticator? I’ve been wanting to move them to something like bitwarden but it’s gonna take ages if I have to reset all ~50

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      9 months ago

      Yes, and while you can move it phone to phone on iOS, you cannot on Android. So stupid.

      If you are forced to use it by your company just use it for that email, nothing else. Use something like authy instead.

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        9 months ago

        If your company forced you to use mobile authentication, they should also be providing you with a device on the company plan at no cost to the employee.

        In which case you should absolutely use MS Auth and give them all your delicious work data because nothing personal should be on the device anyway.

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      9 months ago

      Don’t worry, I’m going to keep using Bitwarden for my personal accounts.