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[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

    Hi Shuwei,
    
    he used cut and paste. He uses Chrome, we didn't try another
    browser.
    
    Chris

On 2/4/2026 11:23 AM, Ye, Shuwei wrote:

        Hi Chris,
      
        
      
      
        Did your students enter the displayed OTP code? A handy feature
        is that they no longer need to read and type it — they can
        simply
        click the code to copy it to the system clipboard.
      
        
      
      
        Cheers,
      
        
      
      
        --Shuwei

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Subject: Re: [[Phys-npps-members-l] ] Browser-based OTP authenticator for all OS

 

this is actually advertised on the nx setup page of sdcc (which gives this some legitimacy)

One problem my students encountered was running this on a Mac. There was some delay and the authentication came too late most of the time when trying to connect to nx. We found this by sitting together with Saroj checking on the server side (there is no feedback on the client side, it just doesn't let you connect)

But it does work great on my windows laptop - I haven't used my phone ever since (okay - for duo I still need it...)

Chris

On 2/4/2026 10:44 AM, Ye, Shuwei wrote:

Dear all,

            Zhaoyu
              asked about OTP alternatives to phone apps. I came across
              a handy
              browser-based OTP authenticator and thought you
              might find it useful — I may have shared it with some of
              you previously.
              
            The
              browser-based authenticator https://authenticator.cc works
              on all major OSs, including Linux. Browser extensions are
              available for Firefox, Chrome and Edge. A handy feature is
              that it can display the saved QR image for a token, which
              makes it easy to add the same OTP to other devices.

            Cheers,
          
            
          
          
            Shuwei
          
            
          
          
            
          
        
        
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