# Two-factor local login option **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-option/12597 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [February 10, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-option/12597 "2014-02-10T14:36:56Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 45
### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro) #### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-option/12597/45 "2018-02-08T22:39:28Z")
Check out the topic below. Lots of great progress being made! > [@Two Factor local login proposal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-proposal/76689): > > Continuing the discussion from [Two-factor local login option](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-option/12597/42): Hey everyone, I’m planning to look into tackling two factor authentication very soon. This would allow a user to secure a discourse account by requiring a one time password to be generated via Google Authenticator/Authy. Here’s a proposal to how two factor authentication through google authenticator flow would work: The user would log in as usual. After a user logs in, the system checks whether or not the user has two factor enable… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-factor-local-login-option/12597)._