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

Gentoo

Installing Authenticator in Gentoo Linux is as easy as follows:

emerge sys-auth/authenticator

Arch Linux

Authenticator is in the AUR. Use your favorite AUR client, for example yay

yay -S authenticator-git

Building from source code

Dependecies

• Python 3.3+
• Gtk 3.16+
• meson 0.42+
• ninja
• pyotp
• libsecret

Those dependencies are only used if you build the application with QR code scanner support

• Pillow
• pyzbar depends on zbar
  • libzbar-dev on Ubuntu
  • zbar on Arch

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 - Install system dependencies

The following packages must be installed to build Authenticator.

• Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev

4 - Afterwards

meson builddir
sudo ninja -C builddir install

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

authenticator

Flags

• --version Shows the version number of the application
• --debug Enable the debug logs

Credits

• Database for applications/websites from twofactorauth, by the 2factorauth team