Does University of California, Santa Cruz support 2FA?

How to enable 2FA on University of California, Santa Cruz

1. Sign in to your University of California, Santa Cruz account.
2. Open Account settings → Security (the exact path varies; see the official docs link above).
3. Choose your preferred method from the list — TOTP and hardware keys are the recommended options.
4. Save the recovery codes somewhere safe — they're your last resort if you lose your authenticator and your hardware keys.

Hardware keys supported

University of California, Santa Cruz documents support for: Yubico OTP, Duo D100 Token.

Sharing University of California, Santa Cruz 2FA with a team (with Kaito)

Kaito gives you a vault for shared TOTP and a real-time inbox for shared SMS, with per-token group permissions and an audit log on every code view. To share University of California, Santa Cruz access with your team:

1. In Kaito, go to Tokens → New and add the University of California, Santa Cruz 2FA seed (or scan the QR).
2. Permission the token to a group: code-only for most teammates, full-seed only for the admins who would handle rotation.
3. Stream the audit log to your SIEM if you want a complete record of which team members generated codes for University of California, Santa Cruz and when.

Note: University of California, Santa Cruz's terms on account sharing are unclear or grey-area. Many teams share access in practice; doing so via Kaito gives you a clean audit trail if it ever becomes a question.

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