On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 10:10 -0700, Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote:
Yes that works too. By the time I was setting up MFA everywhere, and
doing the code printing, I recall not all systems giving me that option,
Yeah, FreeOTP resisted doing backups for a long time on the basis that
it wasn't "secure" enough, which may be what you're remembering. (you
could still kinda back it up from a rooted phone, but it was a bit
weird.) These days it has a native backup option, though.
and finding the paper thing not very good as recovery mechanism for
me,
so I went with Yubikeys and my own backup-in-the-cloud mechanism. I was
just sharing an option just in case it could serve someone that is
hesitating by giving some ideas :).
For sure, whatever works for you is always the best way :)
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