Hi, I registered myself in a discussion forum that uses your system. I tried to set up 2 factor authentication there but it failed in the last step. When I entered back the code from my device it responded with error: Invalid authentication code Here on your forum I successfully enabled it. Do yo…

I recently had the same issue on a forum I host, and in the end I figured out that it occurred because my server time was slightly off. Try comparing the time of your server (including seconds) to network time (e.g. via time.is ), and if it’s different make sure that your system is configured to sync…

Is it possible to have a link to that site or is it private?

Link to the forum . You can register there freely. Thanks for any hint. Cheers, Fero

Perfect, thanx Jacob. That was the root cause. It is fixed now. :slight_smile: Fero

@featheredtoast I was noticing that even being a few seconds off here causes things not to work.. can we add a bit more grace period for time slop?

Sure thing - I’ve added a 30 second grace window that should alleviate this. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/74aecdfd9d93b8e2df4719c4140209dd38bb4ae0

The protocol comes with a 30 second window already, so it’s not as strict as it looks - This just adds a little more generosity.

I am having this same problem on my forums ( https://forum.kirupa.com/ ), and this used to work just fine. I have ensured the time is synchronized correctly as well. I think. Here is my Ubuntu time settings: Local time: Thu 2018-06-14 00:24:04 EDT Universal time: Thu 2018-06-14 04:24:04 UTC RTC tim…

Is your server time not set to UTC?

Bingo. That fixed it. Thanks for the help, Jeff! :slight_smile:

Two factor auth consistently returns invalid authentication code

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 15, 2018, 11:25pm 9

Wait .. reading the code, prior to this we had a ZERO second grace period?

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