Mike TheBig-O

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

Here's my setup:

Home server running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-93-generic x86_64)
Plex Media Server debian package running on server
Netgear Nighthawk R6900 home router
Dynamic hostname from no-ip.org, which I'll use for this setup

Prep

Complete up to the "Generate the cert" section in this gist

How to ssh to a remote server without typing your password

Save yourself a few keystrokes. Follow the steps below:

Run this Bash script on your laptop:
```
#!/usr/bin/env bash
```

The hostname of your remote server.

	"""
	Convert Day One Classic/Narrate journal entries to GitJournal entries.

	Parse the plist XML files to extract useful metadata to be added as yaml headers for the markdown file.
	Handle sifttter-redux XML indentation problems by removing leading whitespaces.
	"""
	import glob
	import io
	import os
	import plistlib

	#!/bin/bash

	# Replaces annoying "fancy" quotes created by programs like Microsoft Word and everything in MacOS
	# with normal ASCII single-quotes (') or double-quotes (")
	# This script does NOT replace the GRAVE ACCENT (`) since it is commonly used in Markdown and as a bash command
	# See: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
	SINGLE=$(echo -ne '\u00B4\u2018\u2019')
	DOUBLE=$(echo -ne '\u201C\u201D')
	sed -i "s/[$SINGLE]/'/g; s/[$DOUBLE]/\"/g" $1

	REM Add this script to Plex down and/or Plex remote down to restart plex if
	REM server is unreachable.

	TASKKILL /f /im "Plex Media Server.exe"
	TASKKILL /f /im "PlexScriptHost.exe"
	"C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Server.exe"

	#!/bin/bash

	# Backup a Plex database.
	# Author Scott Smereka
	# Version 1.0

	# Script Tested on:
	# Ubuntu 12.04 on 2/2/2014 [ OK ]

	# Plex Database Location. The trailing slash is

	# This hosts file is brought to you by Dan Pollock and can be found at
	# http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
	# You are free to copy and distribute this file for non-commercial uses,
	# as long the original URL and attribution is included.

	#<localhost>
	127.0.0.1 localhost
	127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
	255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
	::1 localhost

	#!/bin/bash

	# If plex is not running, don't do anything.
	plex_running=`ps ax \| grep "\./Plex Media Server" \| awk '{ print $1 }' \| wc -l`
	if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
	exit 0
	fi

	# Test Plex web interface. If it's dead, this'll time out in a few seconds.
	curl -I -m 8 "http://localhost:32400/library/sections" > /dev/null 2>&1

	/*
	* Copyright © 2012 by Scott Perry
	* Released under the MIT License; its terms are at the end of this file.
	*
	* This file depends on:
	* • jQuery (tested against 1.7.1)
	* http://jquery.com/
	*
	* Basic logic of this file:
	* + if irsz_auto is true