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Re:Google Apps adds two-factor authentication via SMS by borism on Monday September 20, 2010 @09:58AM (#1708799)
do you realize 2-factor authentification has nothing to do with changing passwords?
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Re:Google Apps adds two-factor authentication via SMS by ez77 on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:02AM (#1708814)
Yes. My humble proposal is that it should. Do you think it would be ineffective, or a bad idea? If so, why?
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Re:Google Apps adds two-factor authentication via SMS by borism on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:10AM (#1708845)
Well, since two-factor authentification is required to login into your account to change password, I would think it already applies to password change?
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Re:Google Apps adds two-factor authentication via SMS by kgermino on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:26PM (#1711243)
I believe ez77 is saying to make it so that the 2 factor auth. comes every time you try to change your password whereas this seems to be designed to only be used the first time you use a computer with an account. I may be mistaken though.
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