Locked out of Developer Account - MFA Reset

I recently upgraded phones and completely forgot to replace my existing Okta Verify enrollment on my developer account with the one on my new device. Of course, I had neglected to enroll a secondary MFA as well, so now my developer account is useless.

Is someone on the Developer team able to assist? I work for Zscaler, we use and promote Okta extensively through our joint partnership.

Hi @joe.anon,

As a workaround, can you create a new account with your work email using a suffix, such as username+suffix@company.domain? The suffix could be something like +admin1, for example.

If this works for you, we recommend:

  • Creating a couple of Super Admin users in your org.
  • Make sure all admins are registered for MFA.

In addition, follow this guide, Enable Terraform access for your Okta org, to make sure you have access to a Terraform config in the event you are locked out.

Hi @sigama, thanks for reaching out. If there is no alternative, then I could create a new account, but was hoping to avoid reconfiguring my demonstration environments using a new instance… is there any way to unlock the existing one or is that impossible?

Hi @joe.anon along with MFA requirements on the admin console our support team is no longer allowed to unlock, reset MFA, make changes to existing accounts/orgs as an added security measure (i.e. we have no way of verifying the admin on our end).

Understood, thank you.

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