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Last active June 18, 2026 20:44
Generate Symantec VIP Access Token as TOTP

Generate Symantec VIP Access Token as OTP

Recently I came across a web service that required two-factor authentication using the Symantec VIP Access App. I already manage all of my OTP tokens in a different app (If you are on iOS I highly recommend using OTP Auth by Roland Moers.) and did not want to have to use yet another app to generate the TOTP.

There is a way to generate a Symantec VIP Access compatible token very easily if you have access to an environment which can run Python PIP. I happen to have Ubuntu Windows Subsystem Linux running on my machine. (If you are running Windows 10 and don't have this you should really check it out.) Let's get started...

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Instructions

Here we install python3-pip and qrencode so we can generate our secret, I

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p120ph37 / VIPAccess.exp
Created January 2, 2014 01:34
Command-line implementation of Symantec's "VIP Access" token application on OSX. This will read from the same secret key and produce the same time-based one-time-passwords as the GUI application, but with output that can be captured and used in scripts. This can be useful for things like automating two-factor AnyConnect VPN logins through openco…
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
#
# VIPAccess.exp
#
# Command-line emulation of Symantec's VIP Access software token.
# Usage:
# ./VIPAccess.exp [v]
# If the "v" argument (or any argument) is specified, verbose output
# will be produced on stderr. The OTP value will be output on stdout.
#