Heroku Login Multi-Factor Authentication mfa_required error (without opening a browser)

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When using Heroku Multi-Factor Authentication, is there any way to login via the console without opening the browser?

ubuntu:~/environment $ heroku login -i
heroku: Enter your login credentials
Email [hello@gmail.com]: 
Password: ****************
 ›   Error: Your account has MFA enabled; API requests using basic authentication with email and password are not supported. Please 
 ›   generate an authorization token for API access. 
 ›
 ›   Error ID: mfa_required
heroku-cli heroku
3 Answers

Yes. Basically, to set this up what you want to do is:

  1. Login to Heroku and create an API Token under "Account settings". (You said "without opening a browser", and I'm assuming you mean 'How to authenticate from the command-line'. To set this up you will need to open a browser ... once ;)
  2. In your local machine's home directory, check to see if you already have a file called .netrc. If not, simply create one like so -- touch ~/.netrc.
  3. From there you'll want to append the following to that file (and save):
machine api.heroku.com
 login <your-email-goes-here>
 password <the-api-token-goes-here>
machine git.heroku.com
 login <your-email-goes-here>
 password <the-api-token-goes-here>
  1. If you just created the .netrc file you'll want to chmod 600 .netrc to give it necessary permissions.
  2. At this point, you can try the command heroku auth:whoami and hopefully see your user e-mail printed back to you.

FWIW, Heroku does have some docs covering this here, but to be honest, the docs are rather disjointed and I would think unhelpful to someone that's never done something like this before, which is why I tried to go step-by-step.

I hope this is what you wanted and / or someone finds this helpful :)

user_37615600

For multi-factor authentication enabled heroku account, If you can get the API key then there is a simpler way to sign in via CLI. type -> heroku login -i

enter the email id associated with your heroku account and for password you must enter the API key that you got from the account settings page.

user_197275840

If you are willing to turn off the MFA

This is the solution: Go to https://dashboard.heroku.com/account and scroll down in the account settings to find Multi factor Authentication enabled.

Click on the same and then disable the MFA , you are good to go !

user_134318190
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