On snapcraft login, we are recommending to use 2fa, but that's not a public feature
Metadata
Current evaluation
The 2FA recommendation was intentionally retained pending public Store support; removal PR snapcore/snapcraft#1066 was closed unmerged.
Resolution: closed not a bug
Reason: A maintainer explicitly decided to leave the recommendation in Snapcraft until the Store made 2FA publicly available. The proposed removal in snapcore/snapcraft#1066 was therefore abandoned unmerged.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
No scores available.
Issue body
$ snapcraft login
Please enter your Ubuntu One credentials.
Email: <email address hidden>
Password:
We strongly recommend enabling multi-factor authentication
at https://myac...
We should remove that strongly recommendation because it's currently only enabled for canonical employees.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | The 2FA recommendation was intentionally retained pending public Store support; removal PR snapcore/snapcraft#1066 was closed unmerged. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | The 2FA recommendation was retained: snapcore/snapcraft#1066 was closed unmerged pending public Store SSO support, with the underlying problem tracked in canonical-identity-provider#1636645. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | No Snapcraft change was made: removal PR snapcore/snapcraft#1066 was withdrawn unmerged, and the recommendation was retained pending public Store 2FA support. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | The 2FA recommendation was intentionally retained pending public Store support; proposed removal PR snapcore/snapcraft#1066 was closed unmerged. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Removed the employee-only 2FA recommendation from the snapcraft login prompt. Launchpad bug 1635567 records the change as fixed. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Fixed by removing the 2FA recommendation from the snapcraft login prompt, as the feature was restricted to Canonical employees. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed and abandoned. No comments or resolution were provided, leaving the outdated 2FA recommendation in snapcraft login unaddressed. |
Update history
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Related work
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Related To:
snapcore/snapcraft#1066
(confidence 99%)
Proposed removing the recommendation, but was closed without merging.
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Blocked By:
canonical-identity-provider#1636645
(confidence 95%)
SSO bug identified as preventing removal of the employee-only 2FA recommendation.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #804 Adjust login to conform to UX specification | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #804 (commit bee0b41ba): snapcraft login now prompts for 2FA only when the store returns the 'two-factor required' error, and prints a hint (hardcoded SSO FAQ link) after a successful login without 2FA. LP: #1621710. | |
| #1665411 Only show the 2fa suggestion on successful login | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed as stale after years of inactivity; Snapcraft no longer presents the 2FA login message. |