Gitlab update, 2FA now mandatory

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-10-25 20:53, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>   i concur - after spending so long trying to attract casual 
>> contributors,
>> putting up a huge barrier like this is just not helpful. So, 2FA for 
>> people
>> who area able to actually mess stuff up, absolutely, we have 
>> responsibility
>> here and that's fine, but for casual contributors, that is precisely 
>> the
>> sort of thing that just outright makes people go "lol no" and go away
>> again, and is that really something we can afford?
> 
> From personal experience I agree, i was going to report a VLC issue, 
> their
> gitlab also uses mandatory 2FA and I was very close to just giving up, 
> and
> that was something that kind of bothered me to a certain degree.
> 
> I agree with making 2FA non mandatory for non KDE "powerful" account 
> holders.
> 

hi,

one other side note, e.g. my GitHub account login stays after valid 2FA 
auth
valid in my Chromium browser even over reboots on my normal machine.

Is that something one can configure or is GitLab just not able to 
support this?

Makes the use on the home pc a lot less annoying.

Greetings
Christoph

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