FreeOTP

• Download the FreeOTP APP for your phone (Thank You Red Hat)
  • APPLE IOS (source)
  • ANDROID (source)
• Install oathtool

sudo apt-get install oathtool

• generate a random key

freddy@runner:~$ head -10 /dev/urandom | md5sum
5f0b169ad85959ddacc7fc1c28804ef9  -

• Run oathtool to get the base32 version of the key

freddy@runner:~$ oathtool --totp --verbose 5f0b169ad85959ddacc7fc1c28804ef9
Hex secret: 5f0b169ad85959ddacc7fc1c28804ef9
Base32 secret: L4FRNGWYLFM53LGH7QOCRACO7E======
Digits: 6
Window size: 0
Step size (seconds): 30
Start time: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (0)
Current time: 2019-09-04 15:24:00 UTC (1567610640)
Counter: 0x31D53F8 (52253688)

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• go to https://freeotp.github.io/qrcode.html to create a QR code to load into the app (you could type the base32 key into the app directly but you'll never get it right). Put the "Base32 secret" from above into the fourth box. Ignore the "=" signs.