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Re:GitHub will disable non-2FA accounts? by mistrial9 on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @03:18PM (#37138098)
what is that otpauth:// part about?

    $oathtool --totp - -b
    <enter 16digit code>
    6digit result for MSFT-Github
that works daily CLI; oathtool is packaged as part of OpenStack on GNU-Debian-Ubuntu
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Re:GitHub will disable non-2FA accounts? by SaberTail on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @05:19PM (#37139406)
otpauth:// is a de-facto standard, since Google Authenticator uses it: https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-...

The TOTP QR codes decode to one of these URIs

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