VessOnSecurityApr 11, 2025

I am still fighting with the crap called Microsoft Teams that is supposed to replace Skype...

There is no longer an official Teams for Linux, and my office machine runs Linux, so I have to use the web version. Except, I can't.

I can log in with my Skype credentials to my personal Teams account just fine. But when I try to log into my work (academic) account, I'm told that the e-mail address I use as user name does not exist as a Microsoft account.

On my Windows machine at home, everything works fine. I can go to outlook.office.com, enter my office e-mail as user name, then my password, I am logged in and can read my office e-mail from the browser (although I normally use a client like Thunderbird). From there I can switch to the various apps - Word, Excel, Teams, etc. and everything works.

On the Linux machine, the same browser (Brave), pointed there lets me log in only with my Skype credentials. It insists that my academic e-mail address is not associated with any Microsoft account, despite me logging into one from my Windows machine 5 minutes ago.

WTF?! Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Show threadJames_inthe_boxApr 11, 2025
@bontchev I'm sure my tongue would snap off it's roller if I actually spoke these words but: "Did you try installing Edge on Linux and use that?"
Show threadVessOnSecurityApr 12, 2025

@james_inthe_box JFC, this actually worked! Using Edge for Linux, I could log into my academic Microsoft account just fine - and then use Teams and everything else from there.

But why? If it checks the browser user agent, why Brave works on Windows but not on Linux? I'd have to experiment with that - change the user agent of Brave on Linux to say that it's on Windows...

Show threadVessOnSecurityApr 12, 2025
@james_inthe_box Hmm, no, that didn't work... Changing Brave's user agent on Linux to look like Edge's still doesn't let me log in to my academic account - only to my personal one. I wonder what the login page is actually looking for...
Show threadVessOnSecurity
@james_inthe_box Update: It's not Edge. It works with every other browser - Firefox, Vivaldi, etc.. Even with Brave in a "private window". I thought that some of my add-ons might be causing the problem (add-ons are disabled in private windows) but even after turning them all off, I still can't log in with Brave.
Apr 14, 2025 at 5:37amWeb
Show thread4uit_GBApr 14, 2025
@bontchev @james_inthe_box Maybe it's a cookie problem from some old session... sometimes it happens
Show threadVessOnSecurityApr 14, 2025
@4uit_GB @james_inthe_box Nope, that's not it, either. I tried deleting the cookies but I still can't log in with Brave in normal mode.