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Two-factor authentication failed for WHM (and how to solve it)

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Peter Grahn a.k.a Lite, Apr 17, 2016.

  1. Peter Grahn a.k.a Lite

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    As the topic states, two-factor authentication failed today, the codes generated by Googles app were no longer accepted.
    I haven't figured out as to why it failed as much as actually trying to get back into WHM. I couldn't find anything in the documentation so I had to research it and found that renaming theyaml-file in /var/cpanel/authn/twofactor-auth sloved the problem.

    Hopefully this will help if anyone else stumbles on this problem.
     
    #1 Peter Grahn a.k.a Lite, Apr 17, 2016
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    FYI, I'd neglected to sync server time, this will always cause this problem. Is there a reason why there is a button for set time zone and one for sync time? If you change time zone it should be obvious that you want the time synced too..?
     
    #2 Peter Grahn a.k.a Lite, Apr 17, 2016
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    Hello :)

    I'm happy to see you were able to determine the cause of the problem. It's possible that some administrators prefer to use a custom date/time on their OS that does not sync to the actual time. That said, you could open a feature request for an additional check box under the "Change Time Zone" button that automatically syncs the time.

    Submit A Feature Request

    Thank you.
     
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