I just installed Discourse on a VPS and recovered from a backup. I have 2FA on my account and when I sign on using the email (and link it sends me) w/o using password, it will ask for 2FA code which does work. But when I want request to reset to password, I open the link and it asks for 2FA which …

Yes I ran into this bug too @featheredtoast @sam it is quite bad

Alright, I guess signing in through 2FA will work until it’s fixed. I tried this but it gave me a syntax error, [image]

Oh dear that was rather bad. Looks like we were using an incorrect alias here where we shouldn’t be. This should fix it. :monkey: FIX: allow change password with TOTP committed 07:53AM - 13 Oct 19 UTC (UTC) …

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Cannot use 2FA to reset password

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koltl (kolt) October 13, 2019, 12:55pm 5

Stupid question; how do I implement this fix? Thank you

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Cannot use 2FA to reset password

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