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I hate 2FA Hell (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Installed Steam on a new computer. Signed in. It sent a passcode to my GMail. I signed into GMail. It wanted me to 2FA because I hadn't signed into Google on that device. It sent a notification to my phone, which I never received. I had it resend the notification twice, still nothing. Tried again with my phone's offline passcodes. Neither worked. Tried the QR code/Bluetooth connection, and that finally did it.

At least I got through in the end, but fuck, it's annoying.

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i'm locked out of a github account because stupid me made it be attached to a school email address that i don't have access to. that is something you can change of course, but github's 2FA is email for that account, which means i can't receive the code to log in so i can change it. there exists literally no recourse for this

[–] edge@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe try contacting your school's tech support? I imagine it's a common scenario for all kinds of accounts, maybe they'd give you temporary access (after verifying your identity and previous enrollment) to move any accounts off it.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

i guess i should edit my post, i did actually manage to pull my private repos off it. i found out a couple weeks ago that i was still logged in with stored credentials for the github cli program. so i was able to use that to clone them. i hadn't even thought of asking them for temp access, but you're right.