On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 07:42:24AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> 
> At this point, I'm used to MFA for stuff (and I use a password manager
> that handles 2FA OTPs too), but the Fedora implementation of MFA is
> uniquely bad because we have to do a lot in the terminal, and our MFA
> implementation sucks for terminal usage.
> 
> If MFA is turned on:
> 
> 1. The Fedora account integration in GNOME breaks

To clarify, goa cannot get a new token for you, but once you have gotten
one with your otp, it will renew it for you until it's renewal time is
over. 

> 2. You need to concatenate password and OTP for getting a krb5 session ticket

Yep. I think this is being worked on...

> 3. The recovery mechanism involves GPG signed emails

Yep. Or... you can enroll multiple otps. You only need one to be
working. You can enroll more and keep backup ones. 

> The experience using 2FA for Fedora accounts is sufficiently
> unpleasant that I really don't want to use it.

:( 

kevin

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