Since I want to use this account for my work I don´t want to have a 2 factor authentification on my private telephone. I want to have work and private life separated.
Is it possible to 2 factor authentificate on my desktop computer at work? And leave out the private telephone?
Thank You!
Hi Stephanie,
Welcome to the Box Community, I'm happy to help!
Box Users have 2 options to choose from when setting up 2FA. You can choose to set it up via SMS (phone number) or download an 'Authenticator app':
- SMS is short message service, the text messaging you use on your phone, and receives one-time passwords created from a secure random generator.
- Authenticator apps use algorithms to generate one-time passwords, which are are unique random passwords generated on demand by authenticator applications. These one-time passwords expire after a defined period of time, often a number of seconds or minutes. Box 2FA supports authenticator apps that are compliant with the TOTP (time-based one-time password) algorithm, which is defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force specification, IETF-6238. Applications that follow this specification include Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, Duo, and LastPass, however, your administrator may require that you use a specific TOTP-compliant authenticator app.
To learn more about this, please take a look at this article: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043697154-Multi-Factor-Authentication-Set-Up-for-Your-Account
Hope that helps!
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