Mitigating Nextcloud Two Factor Authentication Error

wirestyle22

I upgraded Nextcloud and for some reason two-factor authentication activated on my admin account. Since I couldn't access my admin account I needed to find a way via cli to disable two factor authentication, but because it wasn't configured there was no folder in /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps for me to rename, etc. Below is the command I found that worked for me.

sudo -u apache php occ config:system:set twofactor_enforced --value=false

Note: You have to run the command as apache, or if you're using Debian www-data.

JaredBusch

@wirestyle22 said in Mitigating Nextcloud Two Factor Authentication Error:

I upgraded Nextcloud and for some reason two-factor authentication activated on my admin account. Since I couldn't access my admin account I needed to find a way via cli to disable two factor authentication, but because it wasn't configured there was no folder in /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps for me to rename, etc. Below is the command I found that worked for me.

sudo -u apache php occ config:system:set twofactor_enforced --value=false

Note: You have to run the command as apache, or if you're using Debian www-data.

You also need to be in the right folder

By default on Fedora

cd /var/www/html/nextcloud

Or

sudo -u apache php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ config:system:set twofactor_enforced --value=false