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Re:Still locked out of my AWS account by __david__ on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:10PM (#14720055)
I learned this the hard way when google authenticator failed to restore my keys after a phone upgrade. Now I make sure I copy the data from those QR codes and store them in a GPG encrypted file (I store the data and the QR code itself as utf-8 art in the file).
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Re:Still locked out of my AWS account by sowbug on Saturday July 08, 2017 @03:12AM (#14724501)
The way that first sentence is phrased makes it sound like it was the app's fault.
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Re:Still locked out of my AWS account by __david__ on Saturday July 08, 2017 @03:43AM (#14724562)
I blame the app entirely. Not marking the private keys as something to backup is a really really sucky thing to do.
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