On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 3:06 PM Felipe Contreras
[off-list ref] wrote:
Eric Sunshine wrote:
quoted
The 2fa requirement is a problem for those of us who don't have
smartphones or SMS.
You don't need either of those with an app password:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833/sign-in-using-app-passwords
Google requires 2fa to be enabled in order to create app passwords,
and to enable 2fa requires a phone or a physical security device, so
I'm afraid I don't see how your suggestion is supposed to work for
people lacking such devices.
And of course you don't need them for the second step authentication
either, you can use any OTP client:
https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient
Thanks, that's an interesting bit of information, though if a person
can't enable 2fa in the first place, then... (intentionally left
blank)