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Feature Request: auto save 2fa backup codes
Hello everyone, Would it be an option to automatically store 2fa backup codes? Not sure how people generally store those but in my workflow this would be most logical. If this is not feasible just...
1P_Dave
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ModeratorHello wottak2go! 👋
Thank you for the feedback! 2FA backup codes are usually meant to be a recovery method if you lose access to your authenticator app. Are you using 1Password as your 2FA authenticator app? Or another authenticator app?
Storing the backup codes in your authenticator app (if you're using 1Password as your 2FA authenticator app), next to your one-time password, won't allow you to use those backup codes if you lose access to the authenticator app. In other words: it defeats the purpose of the 2FA backup codes.
That being said, it would be helpful to have 1Password automatically offer to save recovery codes and I've filed a feature request on your behalf. For the time being, adding them to the notes field in a Login item, or saved as a text file attached to the item, would be the best option.
-Dave
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Storing the backup codes in your authenticator app (if you're using 1Password as your 2FA authenticator app), next to your one-time password, won't allow you to use those backup codes if you lose access to the authenticator app. In other words: it defeats the purpose of the 2FA backup codes.
1P_Dave, periodically and regularly exporting 1Password data to a locally encrypted disk ensures that a user can retrieve the 2FA backup codes stored in 1Password, even if access to the 1Password authenticator app functionality is unavailable for some unexpected reason. If the backup codes are stored in the notes, they will appear in the CSV export.
To guard against such circumstances, I personally export 1Password data on a weekly basis - and, wish that 1Password made it easier to export (and allowed the printing of) all stored information.
