Is there anything I can do, or is that account lost forever now? Resetting the password doesn’t work (natch). Not a huge deal, but it’s upsetting because I was modding a community from that account. Any tips/contacts would be appreciated. Cheers.

*** update: as per commenters suggesting, tried resetting password for that account once again, and I was successfully able to log in, go to my settings, then remove 2FA, and all seems good now

  • jard@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    You have to set the hash algorithm to SHA256 (that’s what the URI asks for.) Apparently, Google Authenticator and anything based on that ignores the algorithm parameter, causing them to generate the wrong codes anyways.

    This Firefox plugin and Bitwarden’s TOTP are some authenticators that handle the URI correctly and generate the right codes.

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      1 year ago

      Great info! I had originally imported to bitwarden but didn’t want to have all my eggs in one basket.

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        1 year ago

        Meh, it’s an eggs in one basket situation for me because I’m desperately waiting for more services to adopt WebAuthn. =)