Disabling Google Authenticator for Admin
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Disabling Google Authenticator for Admin

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Article ID: 169170

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Security Analytics Security Analytics - VA

Issue/Introduction

If you need to disable Google Authenticator on the admin user in Security Analytics, you can follow the steps below.

Cause

This may be caused by Google Authenticator not being setup properly for the admin account.

Resolution

These are the commands the user interface uses to disable google authenticator.  When you cannot login as admin because it is not working properly, follow the procedure below.

This example is for the admin account.  Change the admin name below for the username needed.

  1. Login as root to the CLI using ssh
  2. Enter the following commands:  
usermod -G solera admin
su - postgres
psql -d dsweb
\x

select * from users where username='admin';

The first few lines of the output will look like this:

-[ RECORD 1 ]--------+---------------------------------------------------
id                   | 1
username             | admin
name                 | control_center_admin.default_name

 

Note the id is 1.  Use that ID for the commands below.

  1. Run the following command:

/x
select * from user_settings;

Output will be similar to:

user_id  |      name      | value 
---------+----------------+------------------
       1 | language       | eng
       1 | totp           | 4D2FTUY6ENOPPE5Z
       1 | language       | eng
       1 | mime_type_view | derived

  1. Run the following command:

delete from user_settings where user_id=1 and name='totp';

  1. Flush the cache so that it is refreshed:   redis-cli -p 6378 flushall
  2. Then remove the google authenticator config in /home/google-authenticator/ for that user.
rm -fr /home/google-authenticator/admin