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Google Authenticator from Terminal
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This instruction will allow you to get keys from Google Authenticator via terminal.
1) Download oathtool
brew install oathtool
http://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html
2) Get your 2-Factor authentication secret key.
For example, instead of capturing barcode, ask Google 2-factor auth to enter code manually.
And google 2-factor auth will provide you your secret key.
3) Open terminal and enter command
oathtool --totp -b "secretkey"
4) Enter received numbers from command into Google form.
5) Alias command it to something more handy.
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brew install oath-toolkit

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