Comments on: How to Use Two-Factor Authentication with Ubuntu

By: Ryan Erfourth

Ryan Erfourth — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:53:51 +0000

Are any additional settings needed to get this to work over an RDP connection?

By: Brian Hawkin

Brian Hawkin — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:47:46 +0000

In the latest Ubuntu 22.04 ChallengeResponseAuthentication was replaced with KbdInteractiveAuthentication which was set to no in my default install. Change it to yes and these steps work.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 04:45:38 +0000

In reply to Aaron Martin.

@Aaron,

Yes, you can disable Two-Factor authentication as explained in the section “Disable Two-Factor Authentication in Ubuntu”.

By: Aaron Martin

Aaron Martin — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:49:11 +0000

Thanks for this article! It has been getting a bit cumbersome for me, however, and since my laptop rarely leaves the house, it is probably not necessary. Can this be deleted, or must we just "disable" using the "Disable Two-Factor Authentication in Ubuntu" section? I used dpkg --list to search for google-authenticator from the terminal in order to try to delete, but the search did not come up with anything (I did see libpam-google-authenticator, however).

By: James Kiarie

James Kiarie — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:42:16 +0000

In reply to dark.

Hey dark, sadly you would have to disable the multi-factor authentication altogether to achieve this.