How to Django Two-Factor Authentication with OTP

TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. It’s a fairly simple algorithm that involves combining a shared secret key with the current time to generate a verification token that’s only valid for a short amount of time.

Setup

1. Create a folder and put all the files inside it.
2. Create a virtual environtment - virtualenv env
3. Activate VirtualENV - source env/bin/activate
4. Run requirements.txt - pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. Run the Application - python3 manage.py runserver
6. Go to - http://localhost:8000/

Email-Setting

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword' EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

Attention-Important

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