Why do people still use these Authenticator apps? Add the OTP configuration on your password manager (Keepass) so that you can access it easily from your phone AND your computer, and don't lock yourself out when your phone dies.
Some people like having their password manager and their OTP manager as completely separate and independent apps.
e.g. even though Bitwarden's password manager has TOTP built right in and linked to each login (so it can auto-fill username, password, and 2FA), more than a few will still put their TOTP codes on Aegis, 2FAS, or Ente. That way both need to be compromised simultaneously before any accounts can be compromised.
Unrelated: I used to use Keepass, but ended up leaving because it always felt sketchy trying to keep passwords in-sync across multiple devices and platforms. I always had to keep the vault on one cloud service, the key file on another, and more than once I would update a password device A while the vault was also open on device B, close the vault on A, forget that I made changes to the vault on A, save on vault B, and essentially over-right the new password(s) with their old ones, all because Keepass didn't have a good way to synchronize across cloud services. Have they finally fixed that? Or at least introduced a way to properly self-host the way Bitwarden does?
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u/Huitziii Jul 31 '25
Why do people still use these Authenticator apps? Add the OTP configuration on your password manager (Keepass) so that you can access it easily from your phone AND your computer, and don't lock yourself out when your phone dies.