If providing the cheap U2F yubikeys to some folks on the dev team
would help this happen, please let me know.

Adam

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:48 PM Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> wrote:
>
> While there are many forms of 2FA in the world, GitLab does not support all 
> of them.
> Currently, TOTP and U2F are the only supported methods [1]
>
> This means that if we enabled it, everyone with commit access would need 
> either a device running a TOTP-compliant program, or a U2F device such as a 
> YubiKey.
> There are desktop TOTP software options such as Authy, oathtool, and Gnome 
> Authenticator[2]
>
> [1] 
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/account/two_factor_authentication.html
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:41 PM Andy Peters <de...@latke.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 25, 2019, at 10:10 AM, jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> >
>> > Le 25/11/2019 à 17:53, Kevin Cozens a écrit :
>> >> On 2019-11-25 11:03 a.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>> >>> 2FA would be using something like Google Authenticator on your phone,
>> >>> a YubiKey or SMS message code to verify your login on a computer in
>> >>> addition to the password.
>> >>
>> >> It may not affect me as I'm a user of KiCad and occasional reporter of
>> >> bugs. What gitlab activities would require 2FA? Reading the link
>> >> supplied about 2FA says it would send a message to a phone. I don't
>> >> have, or want, a cell phone. How would requiring 2FA affect others
>> >> without a cell phone who want to use the gitlab repo site?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I am also like Kevin:
>> > I don't have, or want, a cell phone (or any Google account).
>> >
>> > A simple password is not perfect, but at least it is easy to use and
>> > works from any computer install.
>> > Kicad gitlab repo is for a FOSS development.
>> > It is not for Fort Knox access management.
>>
>> 2FA will work with an email address — this is how one of my banks does it. 
>> They send the code to the email address. It works, and isn’t too annoying, 
>> except when the mail servers are slow to respond.
>>
>> I prefer SMS to my iPhone, which when used with iMessages, the code sent to 
>> my iPhone goes to all of the devices connected to my iCloud account, and 
>> then magically Safari “knows” that the message was sent and offers to fill 
>> in the code.
>>
>> 2FA is going to be the way of the world as all banking and such move to it, 
>> at least until a better authentication mechanism comes along.
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