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Allow multiple SMS phone factors to be setup

Open brendanheywood opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

Allowed more phones is easy but the UX when confirm it at login needs some thought

  • [ ] have an admin setting saying how many phones are allowed. 2 seems reasonable so you have a backup. 5 seems silly
  • [ ] if you have N phones then you get N sms's, each is with a unique secret
  • [ ] if you confirm with any of them then you are good, and then we can track which phone secret was used

The alternative is we cycle through the phones one at a time, for this to work well we need to introduce a concept of a primary phone and then an ordered list. This means we need to order the list of factors which we currently can't do. Either that or the factor is only a single instance but it has N phone numbers inside it. Kinda meh either way.

brendanheywood avatar Sep 09 '20 02:09 brendanheywood