two factor

[rickoneeleven]

It's about time I enabled two factor on my account but I'm worried about how it will affect my little script that does bits and pieces for me.

I've searched the forum, but the word "two" was removed for being too short, which meant I never found any posts referring to "two factor".

I've done a google search and not found much and also searched the reference guide. I know when I enable it I'll be given back up codes etc. that can be appended to the password, but I assume these can only be used once, where as my script logs in daily.

I'm not asking you to do the work for me, but a sample script or any link that has examples, or documentation would be very helpful.

Thanks
R

[jabe]

I've no idea what two factor is. Are you referring to the two-step authentication?

[rickoneeleven]

I've no idea what two factor is. Are you referring to the two-step authentication?

Sorry, yes I am. Two step authentication to protect my account.

Thanks
R

[Mr Magoo]

If you are using the API to login to Betfair, then the two factor auth won't affect your script at all.

Logging in to this forum is more painful though. As Betfair haven't updated the authentication on the developer site, you need to type in your password and then add on the six digit auth code to the end of it.

[rickoneeleven]

If you are using the API to login to Betfair, then the two factor auth won't affect your script at all.

Logging in to this forum is more painful though. As Betfair haven't updated the authentication on the developer site, you need to type in your password and then add on the six digit auth code to the end of it.

I use the API-NG yes.

Brilliant thanks. I'll enable it and just double check my script works and look forward to logging back into the forum.

Thanks
R

[rickoneeleven]

I turned on two factor and expired my session key, when it went to regen it failed. So I don't think you can just turn on two factor and the script will continue to work.

Turned two factor off and it started working fine again.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
R

[Mr Magoo]

That's odd. I can't see changes in my own code for 2FA. For me, it just worked. Maybe I'm overlooking something...

To track your problem down further, could you post a message here with the full JSON of the requests & responses that your program is seeing?

[rickoneeleven]

I've spoken to support and I'm not using the Non-Interactive login (with cert) hence my issue.

http://docs.developer.betfair.com/do...28bot%29+login

I just wanted to post the solution for people to reference in the future.

You need to have your login setup correctly using a cert if you don't want the 2 step authentication to break when you enable it on your betfair account.

Thanks also Mr Magoo for your help.

Cheers
R