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Register Additional Mobile Devices

Users can register multiple mobile devices to an account that allows using Push and Passcode Multi-factor Authentication for logging into their EmpowerID account. Please follow the steps below to configure additional devices if you have already registered one.

📋Prerequisites

Please ensure that the person also has other multifactor authentication methods enabled along with EmpowerID Mobile Authenticator. To request a token a person will have to authenticate via other MFA options besides the Mobile Authenticator App.

  1. Login to EmpowerID using your credentials.

  2. Navigate to Admin → Miscellaneous → Things to Manage
    Admin navigation menu

  3. Please click on One Time Password Tokens & Create.
    One Time Password Tokens menu One Time Password Tokens page

  4. Click on Create EID Token button.
    Create EID Token button

  5. EmpowerID will authenticate identity using multifactor authentication.

    💡Tip
    Please ensure that the person has multiple multifactor authentication methods enabled and select the one not used while logging in.

    For example purposes, OATH Time-Based-One-Time Password is selected in the screenshot.
    MFA selection screen

  6. Based on the selected MFA, additional steps will be shown to the user in EID for authentication. Since OATH Time-Based-One-Time Password was selected earlier in this example, a prompt to enter the code will be provided.
    OTP code entry screen

  7. The user can see a success message that an email is sent with a token.
    Success message

  8. The user will receive an email with a QR code, including other details. Please follow the instructions provided herein Registering a Mobile Device to register additional devices or additional apps. QR codes for both IOS and Android devices are provided in the Email.
    Email with QR code