[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]’ve recently migrated all my work machines from Windows to Linux because I finally grew tired of Microsoft’s adware nonsense. And yet, they still managed to throw a wrench into my workflow. As many of you know, Microsoft has their own little “Authenticator” app that acts as an MFA gateway. When you sign in to […]
My MS account is doing a thing lately where I have to enter the TOTP twice to login successfuly. It has to be two different TOTPs, too, can’t enter the same one; I have to literally wait until the first one expires and get another one.
Didn’t experience any of the other shenanigans described in the article though, so there’s that.
TOTP is time based, I’d check the time on the device just in case. Having to enter multiple codes must be so annoying!
I have the machine synced with NTP and I’m not seeing any time issues.
It’s such a super specific quirk, too, that I can’t believe it’s not on their side.
Maybe they’ve decided that TOTP is less secure than passkeys and if I refuse to use passkeys with their app I should be “helped” 😃 by using twice the amount of TOTP?
I have a few networks where I get the notice but must disconnect from the wifi to approve over my mobile connection instead