#google-authenticator

Google finally fixed the worst thing about its Authenticator app

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If you want to protect your data from hackers, you should definitely use two-factor authentication, and Google Authenticator is a simple, logical choice. And now, it finally got a feature that makes it easy to move its data from one phone to another.

If you’re not familiar with Authenticator, it’s a mobile app to provides a secondary, ever-changing code you must use, along with your…

Still not sure of the exact benefits of this... but for fun, adding a pam module to implement Google's free OTP on one of the servers. In theory running this OTP authentication module will improve securiy.. but as only key authentication should be allowed (and I trust that) I suspect that the only benefit is to simply slow down brute force attempts.

Resolved: Google two factor authentication rejects login from Thunderbird #answer #dev #computers

Google two factor authentication rejects login from Thunderbird

Since I turned on the two-factor login in googlemail, I cannot login from Thunderbird anymore. (Before it was all fine.)

What do I have to change in Thunderbird?

Answer [by Brad Patton]: Google two factor authentication rejects login from Thunderbird

You have to get a ‘Application-specific’ password from Google. You can do this on…

Fixed: Setting up Google Authenticator without giving a phone number? #development #fix #dev

Setting up Google Authenticator without giving a phone number?

Google’s support page at http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185839 states that if I set up two-factor authentication from my Android device, it will offer me a chance to install Google Authenticator and set two-factor authentication up without needing to give a phone number.

However, when I try this on my…

Resolved: Google 2-step verification: Should my phone know my password? #dev #solution #answer

Google 2-step verification: Should my phone know my password?

Just enabled 2-step verification for my Google account. I have installed Google Authenticator on my Android phone, and I set up an application specific password for the Google account associated on my phone.

This works great when just using installed apps like Gmail, Calendar and Google Reader.

But if I want to access Google Docs,…