Two-Factor authentication tutorial
To use Two-Factor authentication, you will first need a time-based RFC 6238 compliant Authenticator application.
The two most common and easiest to use Authenticator apps are
Google Authenticator for Android and
WinAuth for Windows.
These are the only tested Two-Factor authentication applications that we've used, but anything that is RFC 6238 compliant should work just fine!
Now that you have a 2FA app that is capable of TOTP, let's enable it on our account!
The first step is navigate to the Edit Profile page. Here's a quick and dirty example on just how to do that:
The next step is to enter
Account Settings, enter in your current account password, then scroll down to the Two-Factor authentication section.
Once you are at the Two-Factor authentication section, you should scan the QR Code or manually enter the key provided to you into your Two-Factor authentication app.
DO NOT SHARE THE QR CODE OR MANUAL ENTRY CODE!
Next, enter in the 2FA Code that your application generates into the
Security Code text box, then click
Save at the bottom of the page.
After sucessfully saving, you will now have 2FA enabled on your account!
If you ever want to disable 2FA, just follow roughly the same steps and check "Remove Two Factor Authentication from this account".