Security News > 2022 > December > GitHub to require all users to enable 2FA by the end of 2023
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on the platform to enable two-factor authentication as an additional protection measure on their accounts by the end of 2023.
Imposing 2FA as a mandatory measure for all GitHub accounts will make the platform a safer space where users can feel more confident about the quality of the code they download from repositories.
GitHub will roll out mandatory 2FA on all GitHub accounts beginning in March 2023, pushing it at first to select groups of contributors.
Users who published GitHub or OAuth apps or packages.
Upon reaching the deadline, the users will start seeing a prompt to enable 2FA on GitHub for another week, and if they fail to take action, they will be blocked from accessing GitHub features.
Twenty-eight days after enabling 2FA, the users will undergo a mandatory check-up to confirm the new security setup is working as expected while allowing users to reconfigure their 2FA settings and recover any lost codes.