We’ve had several people reach out to us who have accidentally locked themselves out of their account whilst trying to setup 2 factor authentication.
Whilst it is possible for us to disable 2fa for an account directly from the database, for privacy and security reasons, we won’t do this at the request of an external/second account.
However, all is not lost! Enabling 2fa will not log you out of existing sessions, so if you make sure you are logged in to a second browser before enabling 2fa, you will be able to disable it again if you run in to any issues.
I was surprised they didn’t have backup codes or anything when I set it up so I got nervous hopefully they’ll get added soon too.
- Sage ( @Sagethefolxhero@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English17•2 years ago
This was me 😑
At least you had access to an app and could message us from your account.
- Sage ( @Sagethefolxhero@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English9•2 years ago
Very true and also thank you!
Hopefully they add recovery keys to the 2FA setup sometime soon.
oh yeah there’s no confirmation for setting up 2fa right now, so make sure you got codes going before logging out
The 2FA is so secure even the user can’t access their account. 😛
I feel bad for you on this one, clearly some 2FA is better than no 2FA, but the implementation of this from the Lemmy devs leaves a lot to be desired. Ah well, they are clearly trying, and I am sure it will get better