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As my Mediawiki instance is exposed to the Internet, I decided it best if I protect my accounts with Two-Factor Authentication.

This is how I configured it.

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-<strong>Welp!</strong>
-I added the ''OATHAuth'' extension to this Mediawiki instance.  This means that you can enable two-factor authentication to your profile to further secure your login procedure.  There are a number of OATH clients on the market, but I decided to just install the ''oathtool'' command line tool on my Fedora based laptop, by running
-<pre>
+As my Mediawiki instance is exposed to the Internet, I decided it best if I protect my accounts with Two-Factor Authentication.
-sudo dnf install oathtool.x86_64
-</pre>
+[[Configure 2FA For MediaWiki | This]] is how I configured it.
-I'll document how to register for 2FA here tomorrow.  It's too late tonight.
-I then run
-<pre>
-oathtool --base32 --totp "REGISTERED KEY GOES HERE"
-</pre>
-Which generates a 6 digit code to give to mediawiki when prompted.
-[[Configure 2FA For MediaWiki]]