{"id":2862,"date":"2020-03-03T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2862"},"modified":"2023-01-13T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:49:07","slug":"two-factor-authentication-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/two-factor-authentication-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication for Your cPanel Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"what-is-cpanel-two-factor-authentication\">What is cPanel Two-Factor Authentication?<\/h3>\n<p>Normally you would log in and access the cPanel with just your account name and password, two-factor authentication requires two forms of identification:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Your username and password;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Generated security code and application on your smartphone will supply the security code for you to enter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"confluence-information-macro-body\">\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--alert   hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-comment-marker\" data-ref=\"d9427d43-8773-4875-a48e-7287caa5baf2\">Two-factor authentication<\/span>\u00a0<strong>requires<\/strong>\u00a0a smartphone with a supported time-based one-time password (TOTP) app.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n<p>We suggest the following apps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Android\u2122, iOS\u00ae \u2014 <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/1066447?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Authenticator\u2122<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-enable-two-factor-authentication-in-cpanel\">How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication in cPanel<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--alert   hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tYour system administrator must enable two-factor authentication on your server for it to be available on your account. If you are a ChemiCloud customer, this feature is available in your cPanel.\u00a0    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n<p>1) Let&#8217;s go ahead and <a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-login-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">log into cPanel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) Scroll down to the Security group, and then click <strong>Two-Factor Authentication<\/strong>. The two-factor authentication interface will appear.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7656\" style=\"width: 643px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7656 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-783x295.png\" alt=\"Two-Factor Authentication\" width=\"643\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-783x295.png 783w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-768x289.png 768w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-50x19.png 50w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-1536x578.png 1536w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-60x23.png 60w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication-100x38.png 100w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cPanel-Security-Two-Factor-Authentication.png 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cPanel &gt; Security &gt; Two-Factor Authentication<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>3) Click <strong>Set Up Two-Factor Authentication<\/strong>. A QR code will appear on your screen. At this point, you&#8217;ll need to set up a two-factor authentication application on your smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll use <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/1066447?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Google Authenticator<\/a> for this example.<\/p>\n<p>4) You can either snap a photo of the QR code with your application or manually enter the account, and key smartphone application will generate a security code.<\/p>\n<p>5) Enter that code into the cPanel interface, and click Configure two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n<p>A confirmation message will appear.<\/p>\n<p>6) Now we&#8217;re ready to test two factor authentication. Let&#8217;s go ahead and log out of cPanel. Now try to login again into\u00a0cPanel. Enter your username and password and click Login.<\/p>\n<p>7) The two-factor authentication login interface will appear on your smartphone. Open your application and generate a security code.<\/p>\n<p>8) Then, enter that number into the login interface and click Continue.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now logged into cPanel. Let&#8217;s go back to the two-factor authentication interface.<\/p>\n<p>Reconfiguring two-factor authentication lets you go through the setup process again. This is useful if you replace your smartphone or want to use a new authentication application.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll click remove two-factor authentication. And I&#8217;ll confirm that I want to remove it from my account.<\/p>\n<p>A confirmation message will appear. And you no longer need to use two-factor authentication to log in.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, we&#8217;re here! Just drop us a message in our live chat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is cPanel Two-Factor Authentication? Normally you would log in and access the cPanel with just your account name and password, two-factor authentication requires two forms of identification: &#8211; Your username and password; &#8211; Generated security code and application on your smartphone will supply the security code for you to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[184],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-2862","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-account-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2862\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}