05-17-2017, 03:42 PM
Ammo wrote:
Under what circumstances is 2 factor authentication required?
One of my questions also. And what apps are affected? I found this in Apple support:
"A trusted device is an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch with iOS 9 and later, or Mac with OS X El Capitan and later that you've already signed in to using two-factor authentication. It’s a device we know is yours and that can be used to verify your identity by displaying a verification code from Apple when you sign in on a different device or browser."
That would seem to mean that the computers I use regularly cannot be trusted devices, unless I want to muck about with rebooting just for 2FA. I mostly use Mavericks, occasionally use Yosemite, never use El Cap, and have one drive attached to my Mac Pro that has Sierra on it.
It's already annoying me that I get fscking notifications on every device if I reboot the Mac Pro to a different drive and for whatever reason enter my ID. There is clearly no recognition of the actual Mac. So every drive is seen as a different computer.