Github Account Recovery After 2FA Failure.

1 · Jerry Gamblin · Sept. 19, 2019, 7:18 p.m.
I just spent a day and a half recovering my Github account after the code in my 2FA application stopped working for authentication. GitHub has a good support article on how to recover your account that has this ominous warning on it: Warning: For security reasons, GitHub Support may not be able to restore access to accounts with two-factor authentication enabled if you lose your two-factor authentication credentials or lose access to your account recovery methods. I was worried that I wasn’t goi...