Oops! I reset my phone and no longer have two factor authentication

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#1 Wed, 02/12/2014 - 11:57

Hal9000

Oops! I reset my phone and no longer have two factor authentication

I reset my phone and completely forgot about the authenticator app. So now I don't have access to my Webmin anymore... but of course I still am the root user of the system. So how can I get access back to webmin? Surely there is just a configuration file somewere that needs to be modified...

#2 Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:16

andreychek

You can manually turn off two-factor authentication by SSHing in as root, editing /etc/webmin/miniserv.users and remove the word "totp" or "authy" from the line for the root user. Then run "/etc/webmin/restart".

-Eric

#3 Wed, 02/12/2014 - 16:16

andreychek

You can manually turn off two-factor authentication by SSHing in as root, editing /etc/webmin/miniserv.users and remove the word "totp" or "authy" from the line for the root user. Then run "/etc/webmin/restart".

-Eric

#4 Thu, 02/13/2014 - 12:57

Hal9000

Thank you very much! :)

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