Two Factor Auth Setup FAILED

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I heard the Arduino Forum was going to start deleting accounts that SOMEONE seemed to decide were abandoned. So I logged in to my account on the Arduino Forum just to be safe - and THEN I got trapped by the Forum INSISTING I set up Two-Factor-Authenticaton (2FA)! So I tried settibg up 2FA and that was IMPOSSIBLE to do. Now the forum keeps asking me for a six-digit code that I never received from anywhere. Now what am I supposed to do? I'm stuck. The Email associated with my account is unchanged and as of today still works fine. When I signed up for 2FA I was given a QR code that translates to a seemingly random 32 letter code of some sort. There were ZERO insrtuctions about what to do with that 32 character string of letters.

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"Time" not "SomEoNE"

Whatever you did to post this, maybe? Have we been drinking?

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You need an authenticator app. Try Googling "google authenticator alternatives" for some choices.

The app reads a QR code, which comprises parameters for a TOTP and probably your basic account info so that it can display that name in the app. It generates those six-digit numbers, which change every 30 seconds.

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Topic moved !! Please do not post in "Uncategorized"; see the sticky topics in Uncategorized - Arduino Forum.

Two factor authentication is not a requirement as far as I know; you should be able to skip that.

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Please do not post in "Uncategorized". OK got it - but that was the only way I could get anything to post. I was DRIVEN to post with Uncategorized.

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I somehow doubt that :wink:

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After clicking Bew Topic you get the below screen. If you click on category you get a drop down where you can choose the category.

But I see that you have managed to figure it out :smiley: