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# Regenerate MFA Recovery Codes

> Issues a fresh set of recovery codes and INVALIDATES the previous set immediately.

⚠️ The response body IS the credential. These codes bypass every second factor, they are returned once and never again, and anyone holding one can sign in without the device. Store them where the account's password is stored, not next to it.

Call this when the old set was used up, exposed, or lost.

The response carries `Cache-Control: no-store`.

Failures:
- `400` — MFA is not enabled on the account, so there is nothing to recover.
- `404` — no such user.
- `503 IDE-0066` — the identity provider is unavailable (unreachable, too slow to answer, or failing). Nothing about the request was wrong; retry it later.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /en/openapi/v3-current/AM-identity.yaml post /v1/users/{id}/mfa/recovery-codes
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  contact:
    name: Lerian Studio
    url: https://lerian.studio
  description: OpenAPI 3.1 surface for the Access Manager identity component.
  license:
    name: Lerian Studio General License
  title: Plugin Access Manager — Identity API
  version: v1
servers:
  - url: https://identity.sandbox.lerian.net
security: []
tags:
  - description: >-
      M2M-only: each plugin declares its own permissions, roles and M2M
      contract, and the server reconciles them.
    name: Declarations
  - description: >-
      A tenant administrator's customers. Each partner holds what its
      credentials may DO (permissions, per product) and WHERE they may do it
      (scope, per product and dimension); an M2M application attached to one is
      confined to that intersection. Administrator-only: authorized on the
      "partners" resource, and every route resolves the owning organization from
      the caller's token.
    name: Partners
paths:
  /v1/users/{id}/mfa/recovery-codes:
    post:
      tags:
        - MFA
      summary: Regenerate MFA Recovery Codes
      description: >-
        Issues a fresh set of recovery codes and INVALIDATES the previous set
        immediately.


        ⚠️ The response body IS the credential. These codes bypass every second
        factor, they are returned once and never again, and anyone holding one
        can sign in without the device. Store them where the account's password
        is stored, not next to it.


        Call this when the old set was used up, exposed, or lost.


        The response carries `Cache-Control: no-store`.


        Failures:

        - `400` — MFA is not enabled on the account, so there is nothing to
        recover.

        - `404` — no such user.

        - `503 IDE-0066` — the identity provider is unavailable (unreachable,
        too slow to answer, or failing). Nothing about the request was wrong;
        retry it later.
      operationId: regenerateMFARecoveryCodes
      parameters:
        - description: User ID.
          in: path
          name: id
          required: true
          schema:
            description: User ID.
            examples:
              - 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MFARecoveryCodesResponse'
          description: OK
          headers:
            Cache-Control:
              schema:
                type: string
        '400':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPError'
          description: Bad Request
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPError'
          description: Unauthorized
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPError'
          description: Not Found
        '422':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
          description: Unprocessable Entity
        '500':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPError'
          description: Internal Server Error
        '503':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPError'
          description: Service Unavailable
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    MFARecoveryCodesResponse:
      additionalProperties: false
      properties:
        recoveryCodes:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
      type: object
    HTTPError:
      additionalProperties: false
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        entityType:
          type: string
        err: {}
        message:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
      type: object
    Detail:
      additionalProperties: true
      properties:
        code:
          description: >-
            Stable, machine-readable domain error code scoped to the emitting
            service (format: <SERVICE>-NNNN).
          type: string
        detail:
          description: >-
            A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the
            problem.
          examples:
            - Property foo is required but is missing.
          type: string
        errors:
          description: Optional list of individual error details
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorDetail'
          type:
            - array
            - 'null'
        instance:
          description: >-
            A URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the
            problem.
          examples:
            - https://example.com/error-log/abc123
          format: uri
          type: string
        status:
          description: HTTP status code
          examples:
            - 400
          format: int64
          type: integer
        title:
          description: >-
            A short, human-readable summary of the problem type. This value
            should not change between occurrences of the error.
          examples:
            - Bad Request
          type: string
        type:
          default: about:blank
          description: A URI reference to human-readable documentation for the error.
          examples:
            - https://example.com/errors/example
          format: uri
          type: string
        upstream:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Upstream'
          description: >-
            RFC 9457 extension member: the error a proxied third-party provider
            reported. Absent unless the emitting service explicitly surfaced
            one.
      type: object
    ErrorDetail:
      additionalProperties: false
      properties:
        location:
          description: >-
            Where the error occurred, e.g. 'body.items[3].tags' or
            'path.thing-id'
          type: string
        message:
          description: Error message text
          type: string
        value:
          description: The value at the given location
      type: object
    Upstream:
      additionalProperties: false
      properties:
        code:
          description: The upstream provider's own error code, verbatim.
          examples:
            - E4001
          type: string
        message:
          description: >-
            The upstream provider's own error message, verbatim (bounded, never
            its raw response body).
          examples:
            - account not found at provider
          type: string
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: JWT bearer token issued by the identity provider.
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

````

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