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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by StorageB@lemmy.one to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don't love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don't want to give them my phone number just to log in.

Last year, we announced our commitment to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable two-factor authentication (2FA)...

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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

If you're willing to work with unencrypted exports I think tauthy can import unencrypted Aegis JSON format.

Also, what Aegis exports as "text format" is a standard format of sorts that consists in lines of otpauth:// URLs. There are lots of apps that can import that format, but please note that you lose some extra information from Aegis when you export in that format. Shouldn't be a problem if you just want to be able to generate codes on desktop.

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