[PLUG] Thunderbird Login Issue

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 17:08:28 UTC 2022


I use on-line accounts in gnome and/or kde. They are so called "secure
authentication apps". They in turn provide authentication via gnome/kde key
wallets to my emai client - in my case evolution.

Tomas

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 23:58 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> And, there are other authenticator apps that also work. They use a
> shared key plus time to generate a six digit code that changes every
> 30 seconds.
>
> TOTP
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password for details.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 8:43 PM Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> In order to fix the issue you have to enable two
> > >> factor authentication  on your Google account.
> > >
> > > Jesus Christ is Google hungry for phone numbers.
> >
> > no.  it's the millions they make off the free 2fa google authenticator
> > app.  </snark>
> >
> > 2fs need not be a text message.  in fact, texts are worse and worse for
> > 2fa.
> >
> > randy, who is not a big google fan but uses the authenticator
>



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