Two factor authentication disaster

dlnewhouse · 3 Jun 2017, 02:03 PM

I enabled two factor authentication without enabling timed one time passwords and the login screen to webmail demanded a time one time password! I eventually figured out that if I selected "one time password" as a login method I could use a one time password in addition to my login password to login. I had saved a bunch of one time passwords on a previous login.

The system has changed so that the problem is not currently reproducible.

If two factor authentication is to work, there needs to be a second factor on the default login dialog. This is typically an SMS (text) message to a cell phone, and the feature was not available.

3 Jun 2017, 02:03 PM	#1
dlnewhouse Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Gainesville, FL Posts: 10	Two factor authentication disaster I enabled two factor authentication without enabling timed one time passwords and the login screen to webmail demanded a time one time password! I eventually figured out that if I selected "one time password" as a login method I could use a one time password in addition to my login password to login. I had saved a bunch of one time passwords on a previous login. The system has changed so that the problem is not currently reproducible. If two factor authentication is to work, there needs to be a second factor on the default login dialog. This is typically an SMS (text) message to a cell phone, and the feature was not available. Last edited by dlnewhouse : 13 Jun 2017 at 03:27 AM.