Sign-in and security

Settings › Sign-in and security is how you prove it's you. The top of the page says whether two-factor sign-in is on for your account.

Second steps

With one on, signing in takes your password and then a code or a passkey. Someone who learns your password still can't get in without your phone or passkey.

• Authenticator app: choose Set up… and scan the code with any app that reads a QR code, such as 2FAS or Aegis. It gives you a 6-digit code each time you sign in.
• Backup codes: you get ten when you set up your first second step. Each works once, if you lose your phone or passkey. Make new codes… replaces them, and the old ones stop working straight away.

If your household requires two-factor sign-in, set one up to keep using Solel. Admins set that in Household rules.

Passkeys

A passkey lives on your device and opens with your fingerprint, face or screen lock. You can sign in with one instead of a password, or use one as your second step. Choose Add a passkey; the button only shows in a browser that can make them.

Removing a passkey asks for your password. Remove it from the device too, in its password settings. Passkeys belong to your server's address, so if an admin changes that address, everyone adds a new passkey.

If you forget your password

Only the owner sees this. Nobody can reset the owner's password, so the owner keeps password recovery codes instead: 8 of them, each sets a new password once. They're not the backup codes for your second step. Everyone else asks an admin.

Where you're signed in

Every browser, phone and app you're signed in on, with this device first.

• Sign out one device. You can sign in there again.
• Sign out others… keeps you signed in here. Your API keys and phones' sync passwords keep working.
• Sign out everywhere… signs out this device too, and your API keys and phones' sync passwords stop working.

On this device

Lock the screen after 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes unused, or never. It starts at 15 minutes and stays with this device only. Lock it now locks straight away, and so does Ctrl Alt L. Unlocking takes your password or a passkey, and everything is as you left it.