Creates a QR code simulating Symantec's VIP Access that you can then use in your preferred authenticator. Slightly modified for use with macOS.

create-qr.sh

# Make sure Python is installed
python --version

# [Install pip](https://copygrammer.com/how-to-install-pip-and-codeintel-on-mac-os-mojave/)
sudo easy_install pip
# (it will ask for your admin password)

# [Install python-vipaccess](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18199853/error-could-not-create-library-python-2-7-site-packages-xlrd-permission-den)
pip3 install python-vipaccess --user

# For some reason, on my system, the vipaccess tool wasn’t added to one of my $PATH directories, so
ln -s ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin/vipaccess /usr/local/bin/

# Run vipaccess using the defaults
vipaccess provision 

# then read the necessary info from the .vipaccess file
CREDENTIAL_ID=$(cat ~/.vipaccess | grep id | awk '{ print $2 }')
CREDENTIAL_SECRET=$(cat ~/.vipaccess | grep secret | awk '{ print $2 }')

# and then form the necessary URL
AUTH_URL="otpauth://totp/VIP%20Access:$CREDENTIAL_ID?secret=$CREDENTIAL_SECRET&issuer=Symantec&algorithm=SHA1&digits=6"

# Install [homebrew](https://brew.sh/)
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

# Install qrencode
brew install qrencode