Wrote about FreeOTP reinstalling itself here. So I haven’t been using 2FA since. Since it was asking for a password and I didn’t have one. Today I thought I better find another 2FA app. Thinking I don’t want to use FreeOTP just incase I read about some fix. Anyway I looked at Authy and another one. There were things I didn’t like so I finally thought the heck with it I’ll just use FreeOTP and face the consequences. So I started it and it wanted a setup password. I created one like I always do in my password app then reentered it thinking here we go anew. But it brought up my old 2FA accounts. Wow!
So evidently the new install was to add features/functionality. Would have really been nice to know that before deactivating 2FA on 4 old accounts. When that happened the first thing I did was google FreeOTP news and…NOTHING!!!! So experience taught me when asking for a password that you don’t know and is not in your password app. You’re screwed. Now the new the features are nice…in hindsight!
A interface refresh
A password
Backup and restore.
So since I deactivated 2FA on Amazon for example…y sending them my DL. I wanted to add that back. Well that worked.
However I now have 2 Amazon entries (and others too). I can’t figure out how to delete the old one I deactivated. I tried looking in the menu…nothing. Maybe something will show up with a long press…Nope! I could rename the old one. So it’s better than nothing. But cluttered. I googled and read something about swiping right or left…but that didn’t work.
For this type of update we should have been forewarned. Something like “Hey our next update is not asking for an existing password but will require you to create a new password. Your entries will appear after creating the new password!!!”
This is Redhat not some dinky little unsavvy computer company!