Moderator
James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Try manually resetting your plugins (no Dashboard access required). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.
I suspect it’s part of a larger security plugin.
Thanks, but I don’t quite get this. I have no difficulty accessing my dashboard or my list of plugins, which is short, like 6. None are the culprit as far as I can figure out. I looked at details on all and none mention two factor authentication.
When I first try to go on my dashboard I get a small panel that drops down at top middle And says:
Authentication Required
A username and password are being requested by
http://nameofsite.net. The site says “Limited!”
User Name:
Password:
I have these and can readily log in to this panel which takes me to the real login for the real username and password for the dashboard. No problems.
Only thing I want to do is get rid of the Authentication Required business so going to the dashboard site just goes directly to the dashboard login page.
Moderator
James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Ok, that’s Basic Access Authentication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
Not exactly what’s traditionally referred to as Two Factor Authentication these days, though I can understand the confusion.
Access your server via FTP or SFTP, navigate to /wp-admin/ and open the .htaccess file in a plain text editor.
You’ll find a section, about 5 lines, like this:
AuthName "Limited!"
AuthUserFile /home/yourdirectory/.htpasswds/public_html/wp-admin/passwd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType basic
require user username
Remove that section.
Thanks very much, that remedied the problem. For the record, the .htaccess file was not in the /wp-admin/ folder but in the main folder for the whole site. I got there through the “control panel” and #’d out the section first, after making a copy of the whole .htaccess file.
Here is what the section looked like. Both the active and the #’d out sections were there to begin with:
<Files "wp-login.php">
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile "/home/nameofsite/www/www/.htpasswd"
AuthName Limited!
require valid-user
</Files>
# AuthType Basic
# AuthUserFile "/home/nameofsite/www/www/.htpasswd"
# AuthName Limited!
# require valid-user
Again, many thanks for your help. It is greatly appreciated.
