Hello! I’m in the process of slowly de-googling my life and taking my privacy more seriously.
I currently use Google Authenticator for 2fa at the moment.
I am currently dreading swapping those to Aegis, which requires a password every time I want to use it (that’s very inconvenient, to be honest) while with Google’s I can just open the app and get the necessary code right away; no password required.
Should I just stop being lazy, suck it up, and make the switch? I know I’m being a bit of a baby.
Edit: Okay, apparently I can use my fingerprint scanner instead, which is a LOT better, so I’ll stop being a lazy shit and do the swap tomorrow. Cheers!
Final Edit: I made the switch to Aegis. Already made a backup, and I have Biometrics setup. Ty everyone!
If your phone has biometrics, you can set that up, much quicker than typing password each time.
You can disable encryption and use Aegis without a password, just like Google authenticator.
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I think it is the default settings, but you can change it to biometrics
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That’s concerning, tbh. I got biometrics set up.
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Btw OP, you can export from Google Auth. and it will give you a big QR code that you can just snap with Aegis, in case you didn’t know already.
No need to transfer one-by-one.
You just need to get the code off your phone first.
Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose though? I would regenerate each OTP “string”, for lack of a better way to say it, rather than bringing them over as Google already has that data.
Err… how do I get it off my phone tho?
What I did was take a screenshot and then scan the photo via Aegis
I use a self-hosted bitwarden, it keeps both my passwords and generates TOTP authentication codes
This is the only way, saving tons of credentials centralised isn’t the way to go, if you’re able to do it yourself and mantain it.
Not everybody should selfhost
instructions unclear, everyone should be @selfhosted