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Can I refuse MS Authenticator? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by Martin@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's demonstrably safer? Or is this a battle I can pick to shield myself a little from MS?

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is disingenuous though... You can simply reset the TOTP seed on any account to achieve the same operation. We use AuthLite on a local domain... I can disable an account domain-wide by simply resetting the TOTP seed or disabling the account. Using an Azure domain and MS app doesn't add any value in that regards. All of the online office stuff can be linked onto a local domain as well and would also be disabled.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need to disable an ex-employee's ability to generate TOTP codes... Once the account is disabled what use are the codes?

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well that's a bit of the point of my post... why are you making it out like disabling the 2fa app matters?

Edit: Swype typos!