vodik / Authenticator

Two-Factor Authentication code generator for Gnome

Authenticator

Two-factor authentication code generator for GNOME. Created with love using Python and Gtk.

Screenshots

Features

• QR code scanner
• Beautiful UI
• Huge database of (290+) websites/applications

Installation

Flatpak

You can install the flatpak package of the application from flathub using

flatpak install flathub com.github.bilelmoussaoui.Authenticator

Building from source code

Dependecies

• Python 3.3+
• Gtk 3.16+
• meson 0.38+
• ninja
• pyotp
• Pillow
• pyzbar depends on zbar
  • libzbar-dev on Ubuntu
  • zbar on Arch
• libsecret

1 - Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/Authenticator && cd ./Authenticator

2 - Install Python dependecies

sudo pip install pyotp pyzbar Pillow meson ninja

_{PS : In some distributions you will need to use pip3 instead of pip to install the compatible version of the package with Python 3.}

3 - Afterwards

meson builddir
sudo ninja -C builddir install

4 - You can run the application from the desktop file or from terminal using

authenticator

Flags

• --debug Open the application with debug flags

• --version Shows the version number of the application

• --about Shows the about dialog

Credits

• Applications/Websites database are from twofactorauth, by 2factorauth team