Hey guys! It’s my first time posting here, so I apologise for any errors. I just signed up and went to activate 2 factor authentication, but I always get a ‘Invalid Two Factor Authentication Code’ error. Am I doing something wrong or is it a known bug?
I received the error as well when I tried a few days ago
It may not be set up on the backend. @wendell?
With that said, the 2FA feature was just added to the 2.0 branch of discourse a couple of weeks ago, so new, it wasn’t even in the release notes as far as I can tell. 
So there may be bugs as well.
Yeah it’s broke in iur version will try to pull an update in a bit
this miiiiight be fixed now. maybe.
lets see
Did you just drop the secret key into the code field? 
That’s not how that works
Try 008990
20 seconds to go
lol so this might have been a clock/time issue. blushes
try now?
also what catsay said
tried it again and apparently the code isnt auto generated everytime so I hope no one guesses my password or else they get 2fa…
No dice.
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ok I forgot to do the scan with a phone thing for google auth, did that now, still poo
Something of note, it’s still using the old secret key from my earliest attempt.
I feel like discourse should be generating fresh keys when you try to set it up again. 
ah yeah we may have to wait 15 mins or so
the clock on the master server had drifted 15 mins into the future
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May I ask:
How did that happen?
No regular NTP sync?
Just tried and it worked for me
yeah, was the time issue. glad it wasnt hours out of date lol
forgot but not everyone might have nbeen hitting the same server too. I changed the main one but it might have taken a bit to sync up the other instances
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