UAPI Functions - TwoFactorAuth::generate_user_configuration

Description

This function generates an authentication code to enable configuration of two-factor authentication.

Examples 


 cPanel or Webmail Session URL

https://hostname.example.com:2083/cpsess##########/execute/TwoFactorAuth/generate_user_configuration

 LiveAPI PHP Class

$cpanel new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
 
// Generate TwoFactorAuth user configuration.
$sa_settings $cpanel->uapi(
    'TwoFactorAuth''generate_user_configuration'
);

 LiveAPI Perl Module

my $cpliveapi = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
 
# Generate TwoFactorAuth user configuration.
my $sa_settings $cpliveapi->uapi(
    'TwoFactorAuth''generate_user_configuration',
    }
);

 cPanel Template Toolkit

<!-- Generate TwoFactorAuth user configuration. -->
[% execute('TwoFactorAuth', 'generate_user_configuration') %]

 Command Line

uapi --user=username TwoFactorAuth generate_user_configuration

 

Notes:

  • You must URI-encode values.
  • username represents your account-level username.

 Output (JSON)

 

Note:

Use cPanel's API Shell interface (Home >> Advanced >> API Shell) to directly test cPanel API calls.

 

Parameters

This function does not accept parameters.

Returns

Return

Type

Description

Possible values

Example

 otpauth_str 

 string 

 A one-time authentication URL to encode as the QR code. 

A valid otpauth URL.

 

secret

string

A generated code for use with two-factor authentication.

 A valid security code. 

 S3I4WUY7MTHRMMWN 

 

 

 

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