Pritunl MFA for admin user not working

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Enabled Two-Step Authentication for admin user, used google authenticator to capture the QR code. But not sure why the 2fa wont work. Had to reset the admin password, any pointers on why its not working, I tried to set my phones timezone to UTC to see if that would work but no luck. Help is appreciated thanks

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Check the timezone and time of both the server and device generating the code. It’s possible for the time to be correct but the timezone to be incorrect. The OTP generation converts the time to UTC so if the timezone is incorrect the conversion will be inaccurate.

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Was able to fix it, does not matter timezones just make sure

Fix time sync on the server:

  • Install and configure NTP (chronyd or ntpd) on the server.
  • Use commands like chronyc sources -v and chronyc tracking to confirm the server is syncing properly to NTP servers.

Force time synchronization:

  • Run sudo chronyc makestep to immediately sync the server clock if it’s out of sync.