Gitlab update, 2FA now mandatory

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-10-25 21:29, Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) wrote:
> 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.

Just forget that question, my 'remember me' checkbox was just not on ;)

> 
> Greetings
> Christoph

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