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Disable Two-factor authentication for user AuburnPilot (enwiki)
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I no longer have access to the authentication code generator used when setting up 2FA on my en.wiki admin account (AuburnPilot) and am requesting two-factor authentication be disabled on my account.

I posted on the en:wiki Bureaucrats' noticeboard ‎to inform the Bureaucrats that I no longer had access to the account and it was suggested that I create a ticket here requesting the removal of 2FA from my account. My identity has been verified by checkuser who confirmed I am the only person in control of the admin account and the sock account I used to notify the Bureaucrat's noticeboard. The discussion can be found at the link below, including confirmation of my identity by en.wiki checkuser KrakatoaKatie. In addition to the confirmation by checkuser, I have email enabled on both accounts and can offer verification from other members of the en.wiki community.

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Side note: I discovered I do still have access to the AuburnPilot account, I am just unable to disable 2FA myself since doing so requires an authentication code.

Side note: I discovered I do still have access to the AuburnPilot account, I am just unable to disable 2FA myself since doing so requires an authentication code.

If this is true, could you post something to (say) your talk page? Just like "confirming this is me" or something like that, even in the editsum. Thanks!

(If that's not possible, it'd be cool if you could email ca@wikimedia.org from the email address currently attached to your account. That'd be more than plenty to be safe.)

jrbs claimed this task.

Smashing. Done.

$ mwscript extensions/OATHAuth/maintenance/disableOATHAuthForUser.php --wiki=enwiki AuburnPilot
OATHAuth disabled for AuburnPilot.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-11-16T00:59:57Z] <tzatziki> Removing 2FA from AuburnPilot (T180654)

You're amazing. Thanks for the incredibly quick resolution!

@jrbs can you take a look at T85706 - seems there is a gap on what policies and procedures are best to use in these situations. Thank you!