Verification Codes for 2 Step Authentication Not Working When Trying To Disable
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Hi. No offense, but I don’t like this feature because if anyone were to hijack my blog, they’d probably do a better job writing than I could anyway, so more power to them. Here’s my beef: I DID NOT print out my list of verification codes because I’m a rebel, so whenever I log into my computer, I have to have a verification code sent to my phone and log in using that code. I can’t log in on my mobile phone at all and I’m slow and still can’t figure that mess out, so I just want to disable the whole shebang, but like I mentioned, I didn’t save the codes, so when I try to disable the 2 step and am asked for a code to disable, the one I had sent to me via text is not being accepted. Please help. Thank you. And I’m sorry I broke the rules, but that’s what they’re here for.
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Im in the same boat – not impressed with the feature and find it uneccesary but I blindly followed the advice from WordPress and enabled it. My problems are exactly the same as polishsausage.
Happy New Year by the way……..
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Well, misery loves company, right? Same deal here, only I printed the the codes to a pdf file, but later found it to be two pages of absolutely nothing. Now I can’t even get the verification codes sent via SMS.
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Ok. Just after I posted this I went back into my security settings – this time in Internet Explorer rather than Chrome which I normally use – and clicked disable. Then I clicked generate codes – boom – lo and behold it generated codes in a pop-up window. It generates them for printing but I just moved the print window to one side and took a snapshot on my phone. They disapear when you shut the print dialogue window.
Put the first code on the list into the box for disabling and again – boom – all done. No more 2-step anything. Phew !!
Now assuming you can still log in you should be ok – use IE or make sure all pop up blockers are disabled. It worked for me
good luck and happy new year !!
(hope all that made some sense……)
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@polishsnausage are you still stuck with this? Please try again following these directions:
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Oh snap! I haven’t tried using a different browser, but I had a suspicion that might be what the deal is. I’ll try using something other than Chrome and see if that works. If so, you are my new favorite.
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HOORAY. Opened different browser and got the codes. 2 Step be gone! Thank you so much for that suggestion. Happy new year!
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