Title in Google Authenticator

[Jasper]

Hi!

 

Would it be possible to add an admin setting to set the default title of the Passwordstate entry in Google Authenticator?

 

//Jasper

[parrishk]

Hey Jasper. I brought this up quite a bit ago but didn't see any updates yet.

 

It looks like they are not including the "Issuer" parameter when generating the QR codes. Some authenticator apps use this for the Title. Others just use the Label.

 

I have been generating my own QR codes for a separate application and this works as expected.

 

The URI should be similar to:

otpauth://totp/Passwordstate:SmithJ?secret=JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP&issuer=PasswordState

https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-Format

[support]

Hi Guys,

 

We use the issuer parameter here, as per the following: "otpauth://totp/{0}?secret={1}&issuer=Passwordstate"

 

Are you wanting to change this from Passwordstate? If so, can we ask why as this does accurately identify the account in Google Authenticator.

 

Regards

Click Studios

[parrishk]

Hey!

 

I will do some testing but it was either the "issuer" or the "label" that was missing and some authenticator apps did not show "Passwordstate".

 

Ill see which one it was and report back.

[Jasper]

Hi!

 

The title of a new entry is right now:

Paswordstate-domain-username

 

We would like to have just Passwordstate, would that be possible?

 

//Jasper

[parrishk]

Jasper,

 

I'm not sure if they will want to add an option to do this...but it could be handy for those that want to customize it.

 

In the meantime, you can create your own barcode via the following format:

otpauth://totp/Passwordstate?secret=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&issuer=Passwordstate 

Just grab the secret from your authentication options page and run it through a QR generator.

 

I made a simple PowerShell module to generate custom QR codes... https://github.com/arnydo/qrgenerator/blob/master/invoke-qrgenerator.ps1

[Jasper]

Hi Parrishk,

 

Instead of creating your own QR code it's probably easier just to rename the entry in the Google Authenticator app.
In our case our users found the current title Paswordstate-domain-username quite "ugly". This isn't a big thing of course, but an option in the System Settings would be nice.

 

Thanks for the QR code powershell module. It could be useful one day.

 

/Jasper

[CLB]

Aswell it would be nice to add an image/logo - which has been specified under branding ;-)

[support]

Hi CLB,

 

Can you tell us where you are wanting this image/logo to be displayed?

Thanks very much.

Regards

Click Studios

[CLB]

In several OTP Apps they show the logo as icon. I could imagine that those images are related to the app recognizing the otp link - or is it possible to base64  embed an image in the otp generated link?

 

 

[support]

Thanks for the info, and now we understand. We'll need to see what's required here, as we've never looked into this before.

Regards

Click Studios