Enable two factor authentication

Confirms that you can successfully generate one-time codes. Once confirmed, 2FA is enabled on your account. Login attempts from untrusted computers will be required to provide a one-time code before they are successful.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need permissions, based on the model you're using:

• Identity and access permissions. Your user needs a role with these permissions. Learn more.

  • Permissions: enable_profile_tfa

• OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

  • Scopes: account:read_write

CLI

linode-cli profile tfa-confirm \
  --tfa_code 213456

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