Django Two Factor Authentication not working

Question

I am trying to do the two-factor authentication set up for my Django project. Below is the configuration details

settings.py

 'django_otp',
    'django_otp.plugins.otp_static',
    'django_otp.plugins.otp_totp',
    'two_factor',
...    
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django_otp.middleware.OTPMiddleware',
...
]

LOGIN_URL = 'two_factor:login'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'two_factor:profile'

TWO_FACTOR_PATCH_ADMIN = True
TWO_FACTOR_CALL_GATEWAY = 'two_factor.gateways.fake.fake'
TWO_FACTOR_SMS_GATEWAY = 'two_factor.gateways.fake.Fake'

AUTH_USER_MODEL ='Products.CustomUser'

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', 
)


LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'handlers': {
'console': {
'level': 'DEBUG',
'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
},
},
'loggers': {
'two_factor': {
'handlers': ['console'],
'level': 'INFO',
}
}
}

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('', include(tf_urls)),
    # path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

when I access the url http://127.0.0.1:8001/account/login/ it navigates to the token generation page. when I scan the QR code with google authenticator and then when I enter the token system throws the error
**not a valid token **. The application is already running with django default authentication using the custom user model. Now I am trying to incorporate the two factor authentication.

Can someone guide me on what is missing in the above configuration?.

Answer 1

Make sure the time on both the server and the phone is set correctly. Even a few seconds off can cause the validation to fail.