2FA is lowkey designed to reduce paid account sharing. It's always those services that are so eager to get people 2FA'd. Microsoft Minecraft account is the hardest thing to log into, and they even perma locked tons of people out.
2FA is lowkey designed to reduce paid account sharing. It's always those services that are so eager to get people 2FA'd. Microsoft Minecraft account is the hardest thing to log into, and they even perma locked tons of people out.
Can't you just share the TOTP secret key?
TOTP is unfamiliar or hard to use for most people, so they use SMS. Most sites don't support TOTP either.
Even if you use TOTP, it's not designed to be shared, for example look up what hoops you need to jump through to export a single TOTP code in Google Authenticator. And they used to not even have that option; they told you to set up multiple TOTP codes on each website instead. Even on 1password I had to look up a tutorial on how to import a TOTP code cause the menu is in a very non-obvious and deep spot.
I've shared with non-tech people a few accesses with TOTP codes and it's just a WhatsApp message away "hey dad, enter 12345 when asked".
Code is different from key. The secret key is how he can get new codes without you having to deal with it every time he logs in.