How to disable 2fa?

[regQuery0101]

Hi people,

i enabled 2fa but it doesn't work
now I want to deactivate
so it doesn't ask for the key in the cockpit

[Ganesh-403]

@regQuery0101
If you enabled 2FA for Cockpit and now want to remove it, you don't need to reinstall T-Pot. Cockpit relies on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) for authentication, so disabling 2FA is simply a matter of removing the Google Authenticator PAM module from Cockpit's configuration. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

The typical steps are:

1. Edit the Cockpit PAM configuration:

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/cockpit

2. Remove (or comment out) the line similar to:

auth required pam_google_authenticator.so

or

auth required pam_google_authenticator.so nullok

3. Restart Cockpit:

sudo systemctl restart cockpit

After that, Cockpit should authenticate using your normal Linux username and password again. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

If you no longer intend to use Google Authenticator at all, you can also remove the per-user secret file:

rm ~/.google_authenticator

and, if desired, uninstall the PAM module:

sudo apt remove libpam-google-authenticator

(Only do this if you're sure you won't be using 2FA for SSH or any other PAM-enabled service.) :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

One question to help narrow this down:

• Did you enable 2FA only for Cockpit, or did you also enable it for SSH? If you modified /etc/pam.d/sshd or a common PAM configuration instead of just /etc/pam.d/cockpit, the steps to disable it will be slightly different.

If this solves your problem, feel free to mark it as the accepted answer so others can find it easily.