Two-factor authentication (2FA) helps to improve the security of the login of cPanel/WHM and this feature Needs two forms of identification: 1) Your password 2) A generated security code.

Only root user can enable 2FA. Once the 2FA is enabled, you have to enter the security code generated from the corresponding app on your mobile to login and without a security code, you can’t login.

Remove two-factor authentication (2FA)

There are two ways to disable 2FA from a cPanel server. You can either done via command line or else from WHM.

1. Run the below command as root user to disable 2FA via terminal: whmapi1 twofactorauth_disable_policy .

If it helps, access the server remotely as root user and follow the below steps:

cd /var/cpanel/authn/twofactor_auth

and rename the .json files to something else or simply run the below command :

mv -v /var/cpanel/authn/twofactor_auth/tfa_userdata.json{,.bak}; echo ‘{}’ >> /var/cpanel/authn/twofactor_auth/tfa_userdata.jso

2. Login to WHM and then follow the below steps :

1. Log into WHM
2. Click on Two-Factor Authentication
3. Click on “Manage My Account”
4. Click on Remove Two-factor Authentication

Hope this article is helpful.

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