SMS Challenge on sign-in to Forum this morning

[pgn]

What's the reason for this sequence of transactions needed to sign in to the Forum on laptop earlier, and just now to the web version of My O2 on mobile, @Dave-O2?

SMS lands, after a warning not to share the PIN that is about to arrive...

Something amiss?

[blissgirl]

@pgngot that too this morning

[gmarkj]

Logged on twice today without that...

[madasaf1sh]

Same here, not had it.. 

But 2FA is a good thing, as people use the account for the forum, and there myo2 accounts.. 

So all in favour of 2FA

[Enlli]

Had that trying to get into the Web Version of MyO2. Strangely, the Community is OK

[pgn]

2FA is all well and good - but where I have to use an Incognito/InPrivate browser tab to sign-in to my MyO2, it just gets stuck in a loop - probably becuase after receiving and entering the 6-digit code, the cookie is not SAVED and the browser then asks you to enter your username and password again, resulting in another challenge, etc....  😮

[madasaf1sh]

@pgn 

That is actually normal behaviour for some MFA services as when you enter the code it drops a sort of authentication (time limited) onto your device. It is similiar to a SAML token been issued, and if the site cant read it, then it will put it into a loop 

The way I get round it is to use something like Brave or Opera that has a clear cookie option at close of the browser..

[Cleoriff]

Using PC, I have logged onto forum twice today, without any of those security shenanigans @pgn 😂

However,  one thing I am noticing is the forum timing you out. At one time, I could have 8 forum tabs open and then clear off to shop online (for instance), come back and I'm still logged on to forum.

NOW, if I clear off for more than an hour, I find myself logged out! Very annoying.

This PC is mine and never used by any other family member, so I can't see the point of it logging me out!

Getting a tad fed up with all these annoying changes!

[Bambino]

@Cleoriff I've been getting bounced off after an hour for months now. You're lucky it's taken this long for that to get to you. 

When I tried logging in just now I got a warning message that they wanted to send me a text to a number I no longer have. I managed to log in anyway, but this may mean the end for me being able to get onto the community if that persists.

[pgn]

What I find more annoying is the gung-ho approach, no indication on this, a Support Forum, of changes to the flow of things generally...

Then again, as I re-read that, I realise how far apart reality and my perception of it are 😎