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After much work from CCP Ghostrider and friends, we are finally able to announce the roll-out of Two-Factor Authentication for Account management and our SSO service. Anyone wanting to keep their account secure should take a look at the latest dev blog for more details on how it works, and how to get it working on your accounts.

I really want to use this...but being able to bypass it is a deal breaker. ETA on that being fixed?

yeah i gotta say, "two factor authentication, unless you're up to no good and know how to trivially bypass it in which case one factor is fine" is not really doing it for me

like, why on earth would i seriously inconvenience myself when anyone stealing my password won't be inconvenienced at all

So basically it provides no additional protection, just adds a layer of complexity for suckers who choose to enable it.

Jesus Christ.

Having Ericsson T29 as main mobile phone device i always hate when people mentions 2FA.
Hope this feature will always stay 'optional'.

2 things:

1. are yubikeys supported?
2. how about an option to deny login via the normal client? i mean that should be easy to implement. I can understand adding that extra roundtrip to the old client might be much work.

There are actually windows apps for doing this as well. Which is something, at least.

Just the google Authenticator.

(there's also the email option)

Sure, it's not going to stop someone logging into Eve (yet. I'm hopeful there will be launcher updates to make multi account logins and sets of settings viable. I keep asking for them) it does at least protect the website.

Inb4 instead of fixing the eve.exe problem, they simply disable the possibility for us to use it to log-in.

We know CCP has been trying to force their launcher on us for ages now, with critical bugs never fixed on it (closing the settings window, anyone?), that kind of stuff...

I don't get how making something that makes the login process more painful is any good.

That would be terrible considering that the launcher is utterly useless with several screens and different settings for each account.

I have multiple accounts, and I typically log in and out of various characters as I move buy materials, haul, start jobs, sell final products etc. I would guess that I log in/out maybe 10-15 times during the course of an evening.

The 2-factor auth really needs some sort of "single signon" that allows me to authenticate once and then access all my characters for the duration of the evening.



EDIT:
In an ideal world I would love to see something like this... start the launcher. Provide authentication details for account 1. The launcher now shows my portraits of my 3 characters in account 1. Provide authentication details for account 2. The launcher now shows me 6 character portraits. Authenticate into all my accounts. Now I see all my characters portraits. Maybe grouped together to show which ones are together in an account.

Now I click the portraits to start the client for a specific character, keeping the launcher open the in background. I close the client, click other character portraits in the launcher to start new clients. Play all evening. No more authentication needed.



EDIT:
In an even more perfect world I would love to create a master account login. With 2-factor authentication and the whole nine yards. I log into account management and link all my accounts to this master account login. I start the launcher, login with my master account credentials and all my characters across all my linked accounts become available in the launcher.