Hi all,
Need to pick your brains for a bit regarding best practices for handling of account recovery issues while traveling.
Premise would be that my phone gets lost or stolen, and I may not have easy access to my laptop either, and being in a foreign country I couldn’t easily get a copy of the original SIM to restore via OTP.
Consequently, I also don’t really love the idea of using some password manager with a master password and no F2A.
Under those circumstances, what would you consider the best way forward to ensure accessibility without crippling myself in the process?
The only thing I can come up with is a random subdomain on one of my domains, with random username and random password, where I store an encrypted container containing txt-files. Maybe even further obscured with a random cypher (all numbers / letters shifted x positions to the right or something).
But there’s gotta be other use-cases out there, so I was wondering what you are using?
Ideally something that doesn’t involve another person.
Thanks!
That’s still gaining access through a device that’s already signed in/has your password db.
If you do not have access to a device that’s already signed into your accounts/has a copy of your password db; how do get in?
Presumably you’re smart enough to not have password only auth on a public facing nextcloud instance if it stores your password db…
This is the scenario we are discussing. The fact you store you db on other devices is entirely irrelevant.
My nextcloud instance uses fail2ban and I use a >32bit strong password.
Assuming I lose my phone and my laptop and my personal computer and my nextcloud instance I would be screwed.
Since I host my own mailserver I would be able to create a new mailserver with a new password though and recover any accounts with a new email.