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How to disable Google Authenticator or Multi-Factor Authentication for Plesk via a command-line interface

How to disable the Google Authenticator or the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) extension via CLI?

1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).

2. Run the following command to disable the extension (on Windows Server, start a command prompt as an Administrator):

For Google Authenticator

For Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

plesk bin extension --disable google-authenticator

To completely remove the extension, run:

plesk bin extension --uninstall google-authenticator

plesk bin extension --disable mfa

To completely remove the extension, run:

plesk bin extension --uninstall mfa

To enable the extension again:

Go to Plesk > Extensions > My Extensions > Google Authenticator (or Multi-Factor Authentication) > More > Enable.
In a command-line interface:
For Google Authenticator:
```
plesk bin extension --enable google-authenticator
```
For Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA):
```
plesk bin extension --enable mfa
```