How to use Google Authenticator How to use Google Authenticator

How to use Google Authenticator? Google Authenticator is a two-factor authentication tool that provides extra security for your online accounts. To keep your account secure, it is highly recommended that you use Google Authenticator when logging into important services such as email and bank accounts. In this article, PHP editor Yuzi will introduce in detail how to use Google Authenticator, including initial setup and daily use.

The interface of the authenticator is as shown below. You can click Start to configure the authenticator. But at this time we need some other information.

Let’s first open the application that requires the use of an authenticator, such as an application I am using, and click on its security settings page. You can see that there is two-step verification, but I haven't turned it on yet. Click the Enable button.

Then you will enter the two-step verification page. Click inside and you can see that it provides a string of numbers and letter combinations for turning on two-step verification. . Copy this string of numbers.

Then we go back to the authenticator, click the start button, and set up the authenticator. Enter your account name in that application and the string of characters you just copied, and choose to generate it based on time. Then click the Add button, and the authenticator will start configuring the corresponding dynamic password.

After the authenticator is configured, we will be able to see the dynamic passwords generated regularly. There will be a countdown pie graphic on the right, and after the circle is completed, a new dynamic password will be generated.

Let’s go back to the application that just set up two-step verification, and found that the two-step verification password has been used in the process of setting up two-step verification. In the * column, you need to enter the two-step verification password, and in the second column, you need to enter the email password. We first click to send the verification code to the email. Then go back to your login email and you will receive the verification code.

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