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Hi everyone,
What is the intended way for users to reset their MFA when its managed by kratos?

If I set settings `required_aal` to `aal1` it effectively allows attacker with user credentials to regenerate their MFA
But if I set it to `highest_available` then user’s can’t reset their own MFA during account recovery flow

Am I missing something? Is there maybe an admin API for managing user’s MFA settings?

Yes, there’s an admin API for removing 2fa credentials from an identity: <https://www.ory.sh/docs/reference/api#tag/identity/operation/deleteIdentityCredentials>

2fa is supposed to be hard to reset, which is why services encourage recovery codes, etc. But yeah there’s an admin API if you have a (business) workflow that can verify someone as the owner of an account, for example

<@U04EX32V5AA> Is this API endpoint available for self-service Kratos releases?

hmm good point, looks like it’s not available yet in the January self hosted release