2FA without google messages

[matandi1]

Hi all,

first of all thanks for the great package that ibeam provides! I have been working with my paper trading account without 2FA so far and now like to connect the live trading account with 2FA.

As I have no Android device the "Messages by Google" App is not available to me and I was wondering how to practically and simply do this in another way, setting it up via my mac / ios device?

I have seen the 2nd handler (HTTP) but not sure how I could practically use it.

Thank you in advance
Matandi

[Voyz]

Hi @matandi1 welcome to IBeam 👋 Thanks for outlining your problem with 2FA using Google Messages. Another way to approach 2FA was outlined in this comment: #8 (comment) You could set this up using the HTTP handler, calling your intermediate server that would access twillio and return the 2FA code. Hope this helps?

[MaanasPeri23]

Hey @Voyz ! Thanks so much for providing the community with this package, but I had a quick question. After I've been having the same error as above (please also see below) I went through the threads you linked above, and it appears that you've updated the Ibeam repo voyz/ibeam:0.3.0-rc2 to take care of the 2FA handler? Is this the latest version? Because on my machine it shows that I have the latest version of voyz/ibeam, but yet I'm still getting the error.

Here is the error:

`
2021-11-02 06:29:29,141|I| ############ Starting IBeam version 0.3.0 ############
2021-11-02 06:29:29,156|I| Gateway not found, starting new one...
running
runtime path : root:dist/ibgroup.web.core.iblink.router.clientportal.gw.jar:build/lib/runtime/*
verticle :
2021-11-02 06:29:30,163|I| Gateway started with pid: 14
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by io.netty.util.internal.ReflectionUtil (file:/srv/clientportal.gw/build/lib/runtime/netty-common-4.1.15.Final.jar) to constructor java.nio.DirectByteBuffer(long,int)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of io.netty.util.internal.ReflectionUtil
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
-> mount demo on /demo
Java Version: 11.0.9.1

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version: ed4af2592e9dd4a784d5403843bd18292fd441ea Fri, 9 Nov 2018 13:23:18 -0500

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This is a Beta release of the Client Portal Gateway
for any issues, please contact api@ibkr.com
and include a copy of your logs

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https://www.interactivebrokers.com/api/doc.html

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Open https://localhost:5000 to login
App demo is available after you login under: https://localhost:5000/demo/
2021-11-02 06:29:36,493|I| No active sessions, logging in...
2021-11-02 06:29:48,419|I| Credentials correct, but Gateway requires two-factor authentication.
2021-11-02 06:29:48,420|I| No 2FA handler found. You may define your own 2FA handler or use built-in handlers. See documentation for more.
2021-11-02 06:29:48,420|W| No 2FA code returned. Aborting authentication.
2021-11-02 06:29:56,005|E| Error displayed by the login webpage: unknown
2021-11-02 06:30:02,757|I| Credentials correct, but Gateway requires two-factor authentication.
2021-11-02 06:30:02,758|I| No 2FA handler found. You may define your own 2FA handler or use built-in handlers. See documentation for more.
2021-11-02 06:30:02,759|W| No 2FA code returned. Aborting authentication.
2021-11-02 06:30:10,251|E| Error displayed by the login webpage: unknown
2021-11-02 06:30:17,179|I| Credentials correct, but Gateway requires two-factor authentication.
2021-11-02 06:30:17,180|I| No 2FA handler found. You may define your own 2FA handler or use built-in handlers. See documentation for more.
2021-11-02 06:30:17,180|W| No 2FA code returned. Aborting authentication.
^C^C2021-11-02 06:30:24,477|E| Error displayed by the login webpage: unknown
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
2021-11-02 06:30:31,637|I| Credentials correct, but Gateway requires two-factor authentication.
2021-11-02 06:30:31,637|I| No 2FA handler found. You may define your own 2FA handler or use built-in handlers. See documentation for more.
2021-11-02 06:30:31,638|W| No 2FA code returned. Aborting authentication.
2021-11-02 06:30:39,010|E| Error encountered during authentication
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/srv/ibeam/src/authenticate.py", line 198, in authenticate_gateway
trigger_id = trigger.get_attribute('id')
File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 141, in get_attribute
self, name)
File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 636, in execute_script
'args': converted_args})['value']
File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/opt/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
(Session info: headless chrome=89.0.4389.82)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/srv/ibeam/src/authenticate.py", line 254, in authenticate_gateway
raise RuntimeError('Error encountered during authentication') from e
RuntimeError: Error encountered during authentication
2021-11-02 06:30:39,195|I| Authentication process failed
`
And how would I be able to use the HTTP Handler method if I can't get across the 2FA problem when I'm starting up the server? Do I have to use the Twilio method you mentioned or did I miss something you pointed out in those threads? Thank you for all your help🙌🏽

Update: I saw your comment from 7 days ago to "docker pull voyz/ibeam:0.4.0-rc2" but I still got the same error above

[Voyz]

Sorry @MaanasPeri23 could you rephrase your question? I'm not sure what you'd like me to address in your recent post, as you seemed to have keyboard-interrupted the process and as such errors seemed to have followed. Please use 0.4.0-rc2 for testing, 0.3.0-rc2 is an old release candidate that shouldn't be used now.

Using Twillio would be one way to overcome 2FA. Make sure you check our documentation on 2FA where we outline how IBeam handles it: https://github.com/Voyz/ibeam/wiki/Two-Factor-Authentication Keep in mind that at the time we don't provide any official solution or guide on how to solve Gateway's 2FA, but only means to achieve it - hence reading the post on Twillio in #8 would be a good place to start.

[Voyz]

Closing this issue due to lack of activity. Please feel free to reopen and continue the discussion if needed 👍