Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

  • Trainguyrom
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    10 months ago

    If this is for a M365 account you don’t have to use the Microsoft authenticator. It’ll nag every login but it’ll let you use a different authenticator. I set up my college email last year with Duo as the 2FA because I already needed Duo for work, and it was fine

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      10 months ago

      I attempted to use Aegis and there was an error popping up that said Microsoft’s 2fa is proprietary and isn’t supported.

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        10 months ago

        What you do is when you’re setting up the 2FA token in M365 select the type of 2FA since it supports a wide variety of 2FA types, including SMS