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zcutlip
Dedicated Contributor
4 years ago

Accounts where TOTP code should be appended (or prepended) to the password

This may be a bit of a corner case request, but here goes... There are some websites (looking at Etrade.com!) where the 2FA TOTP code needs to be silently appended to the password in the same fiel...
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melorama
Occasional Contributor
3 days ago

Bringing back this thread from the dead…I just experienced another case on iOS where none of these workaround work. I recently deployed PiKVM units to assist with system administration tasks, and want to use its built in VNC server to connect to the KVM on my iOS devices. I’m using the “bNVC Pro” client, which is recommended by the PiKVM maintainers, and in order to authenticate to the VNC server when you have 2FA enabled, you need to append the TOTP to the account password when logging in via VNC.

Turns out you can’t do this easily using 1Password on iOS, because as an app, the authentication autofill process doesn’t seem to behave in the same way that it does in Safari. I still have to manually copy and paste the password and OTP separately, which is incredibly difficult to do.

Please give serious consideration to adding the “dynamic password” functionality which I posted a mockup of in this thread 3 years ago. It wouldn’t be surprising if many people disable OTPs on their accounts because it’s such pain to handle these types of situations on mobile devices. 

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    1P_Dave
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    5 hours ago

    melorama​ 

    Thank you for the feedback! Your request has been shared with our product team. 🙂

    It wouldn’t be surprising if many people disable OTPs on their accounts because it’s such pain to handle these types of situations on mobile devices. 

    The number of services that require you to enter the password and the one-time password (OTP) into the same field appears to be very small. Most services will have separate fields for the password and the one-time password. That being said, I can definitely see how autofill could be improved for these situations. 

    -Dave

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