A friend of mine recently started coming over and using my laptop to play WoW while I use my desktop. But, every time she logs in, it asks for an authenticator code. Mine doesn’t do that. Is there a setting or something that I’m missing that her account would recognize my computer as “safe”? I saw one on the battle net launcher, but that doesn’t seem to be it.
This, perhaps? Under “Security” in your account settings.
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You can get a mobile authenticator attached to your account for free (as long as you have a mobile device of course). The poster above me linked something relevant, if you want it to ask for a code every time, there is an option.
If you don’t have this setting turned on: I think it should only ask you for an authenticator code when logging in if there’s a major update, you’re logging in from an uncommon location, or you’ve logged into a different account on the same computer recently. I’m not 100% sure on that, it’s just been what me and my friends have been seeing. Hope it helps.
I’m not sure, since I don’t use the authenticator, but I think it will always ask her since she is using your notebook and is probably on your WIFI connection.
It is always going to see that as a “different” connection than what she logs on from at her home. I don’t think you can set it to recognize more than one location as “home” since it would be doing that automatically.
So even if she had it to not always need to use the authenticator, unless something new happened, that would be the “something new.”
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^^^ this. I believe your account can be linked to your computer’s IP address so that you can, as someone pointed out above, use this info to bypass this security if you use the same computer/connection to log onto WoW. I suspect your friend has this set on her computer. Your laptop’s IP address doesn’t match her computer’s IP address so WoW will always ask her for the code.