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2FA code drift
Hi, i started using 2FA for my main 1Password account a while ago on a Windows machine. After a while a reinstalled a new Windows version on that machine and since then the 2FA codes are not worki...
The only time which matters is the current time according to the client generating the TOTP code.
How to ensure that your client platform knows the correct time will depend on the platform and environment in which it runs. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has existed for forty years and there are pools of free services available to anyone with a connection to the Internet to ensure that their clocks are accurate.
I know all that but yet i somehow managed to set it up in a way so my codes are never valid on the new machine. I tried different timezones, different daylight saving times, drifts around the NTP time. Nothing worked so far.
and again this is only affecting my main 1password account 2fa. all other 2fa codes seem to have been setup with the correct time and are working.
so whats the solution? export all passwords to an encrypted filesystem. delete my full 1password account and create a new one?If just one one-time password is failing, but all the others work, then that is a very different problem from the one which you first described.
In this case, remove the existing one-time password, then add a new one. Be sure to leave yourself logged in while you test in a Private or Incognito session.As for time and TOTP, nothing like time zones is relevant, just the number of seconds since the epoch.
