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ECMWF plans to retire On 31 March 2023, ECMWF retired the ActivIdentity (HID) Security Tokens that have been used to provide a two-factor (strong) authentication access to ECMWF systems since 2007, and replace has replaced these with a TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) Client application. 

This page describes how to activate TOTP for your ECMWF User and documents the current status of services that have been configured to use TOTP

The page was last updated on 01 Nov 2022 .

Time-based One-Time Passwords are only required for login access to:

• the Atos HPCF and ECGATE ECS services service using Teleport SSH
• the ECAC gateways
• ECPDS

Time-based One-Time Passwords are NOT required for logging in to the ECMWF web site, ecCharts, to use the WebAPI to download data from MARS or the CDSAPI to download data from the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS).