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When environment variable named AUTHY_EXPORT_PASSWORD exists, authy-export does not ask for a password and uses the variable instead. It happened to me, and Twitch support chose to not help me out ^_^. If you do, all of the TOTP secrets will be revoked, and you will locked out of Twitch. This is unfortunate, but the fact is: you cannot fully delete your Authy account if you want to keep using TOTP-based authentication with Twitch. These codes will work as long as you don't deregister the authy-export device from your Authy account. Per the explanation above, that means it is assigned a unique TOTP secret for sites like Twitch, which means it will generate different 7-digit codes to your primary Authy device. Now, authy-export registers itself as a device on your Authy account. Twitch (and a handful of other sites) are the latter: Authy Apps. If you deregister any device from your Authy account, that device's TOTP secrets will be revoked and its 7-digit codes will no longer work. Each device will produce different 7-digit codes, but they will all work. For sites like Twitch, Authy assigns a unique TOTP secret for every device you use the Authy app on.
You can export that secret to other TOTP apps and the code will match. Tokens: You sign up to a website, the website generates a TOTP secret, and you scan it via a QR code (in any app, not necessarily Authy).In Authy, there are two types of secrets: This is expected, depending on what the site is. "My Twitch (or other site) token is different to the one I see in the Authy app?"
Read -p $"Press any key to continue " key < /dev/tty If the app uses QR scanning, you can try stick all the dumped URIs into a file ( tokens) and then scan each QR code from your terminal, e.g.:Ĭat tokens | while IFS= read -r line do How do you then import it into another app? If you notice any missing TOTP tokens, please try toggling "Authenticator Backups" in your Authy settings, to force your backup to be resynchronized.