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by growse 546 days ago
Buy a yubikey. Use a password manager that supports passkeys. Enroll multiple credentials with your cloud account.
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This is sounding more and more complicated. I don't want a Yubikey. How does a password manager help my cloud account? What does enrolling multiple credentials even mean?
> How does a password manager help my cloud account?

It's an alternative place to store webauthn credentials, if you're worried about being locked out.

> What does enrolling multiple credentials even mean?

You register multiple passskeys for your account on a service. So if you lose access to one (because you yoinked your phone into orbit), you can use the other one.

It's as complicated as you want to make it.

> Use a password manager that supports passkeys

If the user is, what's the point of having passkeys? One using a password manager has (strong) passwords generated for them...

First time I'm hearing about removing passwords and it sounds like they're implementing an even worse idea.

Password managers don't stop you pasting that password into any random textfield on any website.