# Add a one time password code for admins

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-one-time-password-code-for-admins/56527
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 28, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-one-time-password-code-for-admins/56527 "2017-01-28T19:38:05Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-one-time-password-code-for-admins/56527/2 "2017-01-28T19:40:06Z")

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Duplicate of

> [@Two-factor local login option](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-option/12597):
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> So, authentication on Discourse seems like mostly a solved problem since you can offload it to an external provider, but I’d love for Discourse to have a two-factor option for local authentication. It seems relatively uncomplicated to bolt-on support for TOTP via Google Authenticator—for example, here’s a Google Authenticator add-on [implementation](https://github.com/alexandregz/twofactor_gauthenticator) in PHP for Roundcube. Right, right, apples and oranges, php and ruby, webmail and forum, but the libraries are all there and it’d definitely make me h…

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