[uds-announce] Yubikey with non-US keyboards

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre mathieu.tl at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 15:55:29 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Pierre Carrier <pierre at spotify.com> wrote:

> Yubikeys use ModHex, an hexadecimal encoding that only uses characters
> triggered by identical keycodes for most common keyboards
> (including QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY; Dvorak and Bepo are out of luck).
>
>
> Absolutely correct, but we use (for Ubuntu SSO, which I assume is what
Louis is curious about) just a string of 6 numbers for the OTP, using OATH.
[1]

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSO/FAQs/2FA#Yubikey

In this particular case, I guess holding shift on the actual keyboard when
pressing yubikey button is the correct workaround.

/ Matt
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