On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 19:57:22 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I don't know what an "authenticator app" is.
I don't either, but I have to use one at work. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/about-microsoft-authenticator-9783c865-0308-42fb-a519-8cf666fe0acc I have no idea what it is, but it's installed on my work-issued phone, and I have to use it occasionally when I sign in to certain web apps on my work-issued laptop. On the days where the web app decides it hasn't talked to Microsoft Authenticator recently enough, I have to go get my phone, type the passcode once to unlock it, click the Authenticator icon and type my passcode a second time to launch the app, then type my passcode a third time inside the app to validate that yes, I am the person trying to open the web page. I think there's a two-digit number that I have to type as well. I cannot imagine how installing one of these things on your Linux PC is going to help you. Either you're dealing with a workplace-enforced authentication setup, in which case you need to use whatever authenticator *they* chose... or you're trying to establish some sort of "two factor authentication" of your own, in which case, having both factors be "I'm logged into my Linux account" kinda defeats the purpose.
