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by robbintt 1293 days ago
It is still 2 factor, breaching the password manager is a corner case that you can decide to cover or not. It seems like for critical accounts you should NOT. For derived accounts, it should be better than just a password.
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Only very marginally so. Or what would you say storing a (unique, long) password next to a TOTP hash actually achieves?
Well the totp (even in your passwd manager) defends against phishing I'd thought vs password alone.
For a "service based" password manager, sure. (It can prevent the service from ever handing over your encrypted database to an attacker.)

In a local password manager, it doesn't work like that. A challenge-response mechanism can help there, but the cost/benefit analysis looks pretty different there, IMO.