I set up a yubikey with some accounts today and noticed that if I touch the yubikey while my cursor is on something like a youtube video, or the top bar of my browser, it causes that window to go full screen. It's almost like the yubikey action is bound to a function key for full screen or something. Is there any way to stop that from happening?
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Using Yubikey triggers some kind of keypress
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For my Yubikey, any time I touch both sides of the contacts it’ll put in the key on the keyboard every single time. My guess is this is hard coded? My guess is the combination of key presses for the key enabled some shortcut for full screen.
Wouldn’t begin to know how to prevent this unless the Yubikey software has some way of turning off the contacts in the settings. But you kinda want it to do that.
Wouldn’t begin to know how to prevent this unless the Yubikey software has some way of turning off the contacts in the settings. But you kinda want it to do that.
Gotcha. I just moved it to a different USB port on my MBP that I'm less likely to touch by accident, that will have to suffice.
Thank you
Thank you
Haha - yeah I had to do the same thing. I usually hold my mac with my left hand and was hitting that all the time by accident. Moved it to the right port and that helped. Still makes you go ???? When a mass of letters and numbers go flying across the screen.
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I'm a little confused over the OSX login. What is the point of using this key if I can just type my OSX password twice to login? Isn't it supposed to ask for a PIN after I entered my password?
Start Mac
Enter the password (that takes me to a new login window)
Enter password again (no need to use my key)
Logged in
I have FileVault enabled and I've ran the command in Terminal as instructed
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DisableFDEAutoLogin -bool YES
Anything else I need to do or I have I wasted my money?
I'm a little confused over the OSX login. What is the point of using this key if I can just type my OSX password twice to login? Isn't it supposed to ask for a PIN after I entered my password?
Start Mac
Enter the password (that takes me to a new login window)
Enter password again (no need to use my key)
Logged in
I have FileVault enabled and I've ran the command in Terminal as instructed
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DisableFDEAutoLogin -bool YES
Anything else I need to do or I have I wasted my money?