Gitlab update, 2FA now mandatory

[Harald Sitter]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:52 PM Ahmad Samir <a.samirh78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/10/22 13:29, Harald Sitter wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:22 PM Ahmad Samir <a.samirh78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can a first time contributor create a fork, create multiple/100 MR's and spin up CI jobs? if yes,
> >> then, first time contributors can disrupt the system.
> >>
> >> Weren't there some suspicious accounts that were using our gitlab instance for bitcoin mining (I
> >> could be wrong, I vaguely remember someone from Sysadmin team talking about something like that)?
> >> were these first time contributors or ones with developer accounts?
> >
> > I'm sure 2fa doesn't help with that (:
>
> I am not a cyber security expert, but isn't 2FA comparable to captcha stuff? it's not hard, but it
> takes some extra time.

No. It's neither hard nor does it take time. 2fa is 100% scriptable.

HS