I lost my user / pass / 2FA for my test system (a HA yellow)

[fribse (Kenneths Teknik)]

I’m using this system for a lot of testing for my channel, but as I needed to do a complete reset of my PC I lost my 2FA for the owner (the only user on it).
I’ve connected via the USB serial connection to it, so I found the username, I’ve reset the password, but it still asks for 2FA, and for some reason that is not in my google authenticator on my mobile.
Is there any way to turn that off for the user, either temporarily for the entire system, or for the user specifically?

[MaxK (Mark)]

@fribse

Is there any way to turn that off for the user, either temporarily for the entire system, or for the user specifically?

Only if you can get to the profile page to turn it off.

[fribse (Kenneths Teknik)]

No, I can’t login. I did find the configuration.yaml through the serial console, but even uncommenting the auth_mfa_modues didn’t alleviate this

[MaxK (Mark)]

Quick search yielded this:

Turning Off two factor authentication

Is it possible to turn off Two Factor authentication through the Console? regardless of what I do, I can’t log in to Home Assistant front end using the code provided by the google authenticator any more after having to restore a snapshot. time appears to be ok as does the timezone. So I’d like to know if there is a config I can edit to turn this off locally. Cheers Mike

[stevemann (Stephen Mann (YAML-challenged))]

Copy the config folders then reinstall Home Assistant.

[fribse (Kenneths Teknik)]

Ahh, oh well, I reset it, I didn’t find that, but I guess I was using the wrong terms for searching the forum.
Fortunately it’s a test machine, so it’s a good learning process this problem
Thankyou @MaxK

[fribse (Kenneths Teknik)]

I just reset it, it’s purely for testing, my ‘real’ ha is running in proxmox
Thankyou for the assistance nevertheless @stevemann