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    From Markus Robert Kessler@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 9 18:24:02 2022
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time-
    password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which can
    do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    Many thanks in advance!

    Best regards,

    Markus

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Markus Robert Kessler on Wed Mar 9 19:44:56 2022
    On 09/03/2022 18:24, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time- password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which can
    do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    Authy?

    https://snapcraft.io/authy

    https://authy.com/guides/microsoft/

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/use-authy-to-sign-into-microsoftcom/77e82f43-ee16-440e-ad41-160efbc66bc8


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  • From Andi@21:1/5 to Markus Robert Kessler on Thu Mar 10 15:50:36 2022
    On 3/9/22 7:24 PM, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time- password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which can
    do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    Many thanks in advance!

    Best regards,

    Markus

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator

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  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to Markus Robert Kessler on Fri Mar 11 07:25:18 2022
    On 2022-03-09, Markus Robert Kessler <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time- password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which can
    do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    Many thanks in advance!

    Have you checked to see if there ios an Microsoft authenticator app for your phone?

    There is one for android phones. Get it at the play store of course.

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  • From Markus Robert Kessler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 11 15:38:30 2022
    On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:50:36 +0100 Andi wrote:

    On 3/9/22 7:24 PM, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time-
    password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which
    can do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    Many thanks in advance!

    Best regards,

    Markus

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator

    Hi Andi,

    this one looks also promising -- in contrary to oathtool it comes along
    with a nice GUI. That's the next one to try.

    Best regards,

    Markus

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  • From Markus Robert Kessler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 11 15:19:05 2022
    On Wed, 09 Mar 2022 19:44:56 +0000 Adrian Caspersz wrote:

    On 09/03/2022 18:24, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time-
    password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which
    can do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    Authy?

    https://snapcraft.io/authy

    https://authy.com/guides/microsoft/

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/use-authy-to-
    sign-into-microsoftcom/77e82f43-ee16-440e-ad41-160efbc66bc8

    Hi Adrian,

    thanks for your hint!

    Authy seems to be widely deployed, though this is not open source.

    Finally someone pointed me to oathtool, which is a very simple command
    line tool, and it does the job also.

    Thanks again,
    best regards,

    Markus


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  • From Phil Boutros@21:1/5 to Markus Robert Kessler on Mon Mar 14 20:54:31 2022
    Markus Robert Kessler <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hi all,

    this morning I got informed that my employer will ramp down one-time- password OTP via SMS. We should use "microsoft authenticator" only.

    So, can someone point me to a Linux (open source) alternative, which can
    do the job as a two-factor one-time-password app?

    I'm not familiar with Mickey$oft Authenticator, but I presume it's
    just a regular TOTP client, like Google Authenticator, Authy, etc? I
    stepped away from Authy for the reasons specified in this thread and
    elsewhere (Google it if you don't know. The tl;dr, closed-source, and
    no idea what they do with your backed-up data.)

    For linux, I switched to OTPClient: https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient It gives you a CLI and
    also a very basic GUI. KeepassXC also has OTP built in, and I use
    that for passwords and as a backup for TOTP.

    For Android, I switched to Aegis: https://getaegis.app/ All these suggestions are open-source. In all cases, I store the encrypted DB
    in a cloud-reachable solution for syncing.

    This site may be of interest to you: https://www.privacytools.io/

    Phil
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