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Austin Conlon

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Message 80414 - Posted: 23 Aug 2017, 3:30:03 UTC

World Community Grid doesn't follow the same API pattern as many BOINC projects, so I'm unable to get the user's authenticator / verification code after they provide their email and password. Is it possible to query a user's verification code, or do they have to manually find it and then provide it instead of their username?
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Message 80420 - Posted: 23 Aug 2017, 9:39:52 UTC - in response to Message 80414.  

You can find your authenticator key in the account_worldcommunitygrid.org.xml file in the BOINC data directory.

However,
If you're just looking to recover your user name, go here
Or to reset your password, go here

Whether or not WCG uses a weak account key, or where you else use the account key, that I don't know. I'll leave that to others (probably Sekerob) to answer.
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