I moved my Discourse from my personal PC to an “always on” Server, both in the same network. Created a fresh docker with discourse and then restored the backup as shown here: Restore a backup from command line Everything is fine but login for users who activated 2FA with OTP. I’m using AndOTP on An…

maybe some time discrepancy between server and client ?

To narrow down the problem: I have just tried securing my account with a Yubikey, and that worked just fine. It’s only OTP.

No, I didn’t - so thank you for that. I had helped myself by creating a new admin user and logging in as this user and using the web interface to disable 2FA for the affected users. I have now followed your link (thank you for that) and it worked insofar that my 2FA with a YubiKey has been disabled…

[תמונה] Blechpirat: No. I can’t add an authenticator app, because after scanning the QR-Code, the generated token is not valid. Which was NOT a problem on the original instance. Oh, I haven’t seen this recently, what version of Discourse are you currently running?

[תמונה] osioke: Oh, I haven’t seen this recently, what version of Discourse are you currently running? Both versions (source of the backup and the system the backup was restored to) are 2.8.0.beta1 [תמונה] Benjamin_D: maybe some time discrepancy between server and client ? I will chec…

[תמונה] Benjamin_D: maybe some time discrepancy between server and client ? You were right, that solved my problem. While ntp was installed, the time discrepancy was so large that ntp was no longer correcting it. I have now forced the sync and OTP works again.

2FA עם OTP נשבר לאחר שחזור מגיבוי

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osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) 24 במאי,‏ 2021,‏ 1:34pm 3

Have you tried deleting the OTP records before recreating new ones? See this post for help Disable 2FA via console - howto / sysadmin - Discourse Meta

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