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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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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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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On 2022-03-09, Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> 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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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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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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Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> 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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