I access GitHub and GitLab using SSH. I think that that is unaffected [snip] GitHub is forcing me to go to TOTP for 2FA next month to access their web interface. (ssh ought to continue working since it's authentication is solid).
Sadly, I know little about TOTP. Sites try to make it so easy that it is hard to understand what they want. Pushing and pulling code still works using existing SSH keys you have in
On 2024-10-27 02:12, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: place. 2FA on github is partially broken. I was forced to use it and now my account is so secure the only way I can get in is via a rescue key. They really want you to use a cell phone. I don't have one but github gave me the option of using totp. That was fine. During setup they showed me a QR code to scan and some long string of characters below it. I C&Ped the string of text in to a totp I installed on my machine from the repos of the distro I use. I passed the program the string of chars, got a shorter string, and entered that in to github and all was well, or so I thought. When I try to log in now that github is happy that I have 2FA setup github asks me to enter a code (that shorter string of chars). The problem is it doesn't show me the long string that I need to feed to my totp program so I can never git it the code it wants. As a result I can no longer use github as I did before. I have copied all my projects to gitlab. I have gone in and marked a few of my projects on github as archived and will be marking the rest the same. I'll be creating a new account on github just so I can use the bug tracking features of other projects as long as it doesn't again want me to set up 2FA. -- Cheers! Kevin. https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | "Nerds make the shiny things that | distract the mouth-breathers, and Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | that's why we're powerful" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick