{"id":659,"date":"2017-02-11T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=659"},"modified":"2017-02-11T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:05:25","slug":"how-to-enable-the-two-factor-authentication-on-your-cpanel-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-enable-the-two-factor-authentication-on-your-cpanel-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable the Two-Factor Authentication on Your cPanel Account?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Security is important for our data safety, and we recommended you enable the Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) on your cPanel account so that hackers will be unable to access your cPanel account even if they have somehow obtained your accounts user and password details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the Requirements?<\/strong><br \/>\nYou will need a smartphone with a supported time-based one-time password app. Mobile Phone OS like Android, Windows, and iOS and Blackberry, have an app for 2FA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Enable the Two-Factor Authentication on Your cPanel Account?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1.<\/strong> Log into your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Security<\/strong> section, click on the <strong>Two-Factor Authentication<\/strong> Icon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-two-factor-authentication-icon.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Click on the <strong>Setup Two-Factor Authentication<\/strong> and under <strong>Step 1<\/strong>, Scan QR code using your Google Authenticator or 2FA Authenticator APP. If your APP doesn&#8217;t have a QR Code reader, you can manually enter the Account name and Key number.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-two-factor-authentication-pic.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> In Step 2, under the <strong>Security Code<\/strong> text box, enter your Two-Factor Authentication code and click the <strong>Configure Two-Factor Authentication<\/strong> button.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-two-factor-authentication-step2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will see a message, such as <strong>Success: Two-factor authentication is now configured on your account<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security is important for our data safety, and we recommended you enable the Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) on your cPanel account so that hackers will be unable to access your cPanel account even if they have somehow obtained your accounts user and password details. &nbsp; What are the Requirements? You will need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}