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Was looking at this the other week... perfect timing Chris. Legend.

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Naga Krushna Yelisetty Naga Krushna Yelisetty

Hi i'm getting this error when entering 2fa and after click login
Help me
Please check my code
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Your code snippets use of the incorrect unicode quote characters just wasted me a lot of time in debugging. Need to fix that.

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I've had that issue before when copying code from Medium for example. You get in the habit of looking for it after a while, but it does also highlight it can be better to write out the code which helps you to understand it opposed to just copy and pasting.

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Up and running :) thanks

One step from gem doc that I dont think was covered
"Filtering sensitive parameters from the logs
To prevent two-factor authentication codes from leaking if your application logs get breached, you'll want to filter sensitive parameters from the Rails logs. Add the following to config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb:"

Rails.application.config.filter_parameters += [:otp_attempt]

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Really great Chris. You can even extend this to send SMS quite easily

def pre_otp
    user = User.find_by(otp_params)
    @two_factor_enabled = user && user.otp_required_for_login

    respond_to do |format|
      format.js {
        # Users should be able to receive their one-time password via SMS
        # through a service like Twilio
        @otp = user.current_otp if @two_factor_enabled
        # ...logic to send @otp
      }
    end
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I am trying to send the user their current_otp via email, but whenever i call current_otp I get an error of NoMethodError (undefined method `scan' for nil:NilClass): ...

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I'm having the same issue. Were you able to resolve it?

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It works fine but once I disabled the 2FA and enabled again, I can't log in with the one time password. Did I miss anything?
Thanks,
Pramod

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Facing same issue. Please share if you got any solution.
ERROR

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I got this error when I login with 2 factor authenication.

NoMethodError in Users::SessionsController#create
undefined method `each' for #String:0x000055ad15249060

    codes = self.otp_backup_codes || []
    codes.each do |backup_code|
      next unless Devise::Encryptor.compare(self.class, backup_code, code)
      codes.delete(backup_code)

The Error is strange to me.  There is no Create method in Users::SessionsController in your example code
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Can you create a gist with the Users::SessionsController and your Two Factor Auths controller? The above example isn't enough context to see what's going on

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The Error is caused by the Sqllite database which does not support array. Once I change the database to postgresql, it is OK.

Thanks for feedback.

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No worries, as a rule of thumb postgres is much more powerful than SQL Lite. To configure your next Rails app for Postgres, run this command: rails new myapp --database=postgresql

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My issues is: it is easier to use SqlLite as development platform before posting the system.

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There is any way to use the 2FA only in a specific action of a controller, after a non-2fa login?
Example: To autheticate a money transfer operation. So I can login without 2FA and see my operation's history, but to do a new transfer it should force the 2FA.

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Amazing tutorial, really clear explanations and overall short solution! My first interaction with the lessons and I feel blessed for stumbling upon this resource.

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I'm about 13 minutes into this tutorial and get a routing error.

No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"two_factor"}, missing required keys: [:id]

I've checked and double checked my typing, but I often have routing errors.

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This is one is caused by a missing OTP_KEY. You need to set it up.

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Are you getting this on the delete? There is no show method for that controller. Check yoru code in _two_factor.html.erb. Do you have the method: :post or method: :delete on the items?

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Amazing work Chris. 2021 and still found this tutorial to be of great help. Thank you.

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Working on this and I have a variation on the login that does login OR email per the Devise wiki (https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/wiki/How-To:-Allow-users-to-sign-in-using-their-username-or-email-address) and it has something similar at the bottom, but that code seems outdated and isn't working. So I have email, login , and a virtual attribute of userlogin setup with attr_accessor. When passing to the pre_otp check, it errors that userlogin isn't a column, which is correct. But the form works when not split.

(I did change Pro to Proc in the wiki example as Pro was unknown; That then results in a undefined method 'where' for Proc:Class error, so the issue may be there as opposed to something else)

Any ideas?

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Hi @chris. Thanks for the awsm work.
However I realised that there is a bug with devise when used with lockable and two_factor_authenticatable/two_factor_backupable models.
Whenever, I validate the username and password and render the otp prompt screen, devise updates the failed_attempts twice.

This is already a burning issue with a lot of open threads. Please let me know if there is any solution or workaround.
Related threads
https://github.com/tinfoil/devise-two-factor/issues/127
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70847131/fix-for-devise-two-factor-and-lockable-bug

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