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

Webmin
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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…

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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

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

Thank you very much! :slight_smile: