2FA on multiple phones

Alain Bensimon

• December 20, 2022 10:41

I've just enabled 2FA for my WHM. Is it possible to have it on 2 different phones in case I would lose my phone?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 20, 2022 16:27

  Hey there! 2FA is configured on only one device for security reasons. If you lose the phone, you can always access SSH directly on the server (such as through your hosting provider's console tools) and disable the 2FA service.

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  Alain Bensimon

  • December 21, 2022 20:52

  Hey there! 2FA is configured on only one device for security reasons. If you lose the phone, you can always access SSH directly on the server (such as through your hosting provider's console tools) and disable the 2FA service.

  
  Thank you.

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  ffeingol

  • December 21, 2022 21:59

  I'm not sure that what @cPRex is really true. Google Authenticator (for example) let's you replicate things across multiple devices. It's intended for an export/import, but they do stay in sync (from our testing). So it really boils down to your authenticator app.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 22, 2022 11:44

  @ffeingol - I haven't tried that! If the app can somehow keep the requests in sync (as in, doesn't allow an auth on device 2 after device 1 has already denied it) then that should work well.

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