Migrating from Steam Authenticator
WARNING
Steam Authenticator code is only supported after auth-v3.0.3, check the app's version number before migration.
One way to migrate is to use this tool by dyc3 to simplify the process and skip directly to generating a qr code to Ente Authenticator.
Download/Install steamguard-cli
Windows
- Download
steamguard.exe
from the releases page. - Place
steamguard.exe
in a folder of your choice. For this example, we will use%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
. - Open Powershell or Command Prompt. The prompt should be at
%USERPROFILE%
(eg.C:\Users\<username>
). - Use
cd
to change directory into the folder where you placedsteamguard.exe
. For this example, it would becd Desktop
. - You should now be able to run
steamguard.exe
by typing.\steamguard.exe --help
and pressing enter.
Linux
Ubuntu/Debian
- Download the
.deb
from the releases page. - Open a terminal and run this to install it:
bash
sudo dpkg -i ./steamguard-cli_<version>_amd64.deb
Other Linux
- Download
steamguard
from the releases page - Make it executable, and move
steamguard
to/usr/local/bin
or any other directory in your$PATH
.
bash
chmod +x ./steamguard
sudo mv ./steamguard /usr/local/bin
- You should now be able to run
steamguard
by typingsteamguard --help
and pressing enter.
Login to Steam account
Set up a new account with steamguard-cli
bash
steamguard setup # set up a new account with steamguard-cli
Generate & importing QR codes
steamguard-cli can then generate a QR code for your 2FA secret.
bash
steamguard qr # print QR code for the first account in your maFiles
steamguard -u <account name> qr # print QR code for a specific account
Open Ente Auth, press the '+' button, select Scan a QR code
, and scan the qr code.
You should now have your steam code inside Ente Auth