Email OTP and TOTP as the first authentication step in MFA

[mpmadhavig]

Describe the issue:

When configuring the email OTP or TOTP as the first step of the MFA flow, the following error will appear.

[2022-08-09 17:29:44,662] [c6e227d4-7fe9-4aa4-90ae-2dd7f5dd9049] ERROR {org.wso2.carbon.identity.application.authentication.framework.handler.step.impl.DefaultStepHandler} - Authentication failed exception! Can not find the authenticated user

How to reproduce:

1. Configure and OIDC sample app using management console.
2. Configure MFA using one or more steps and add email otp and totp as authetication options for the first step
3. Log into the sample app
4. Select Email OTP as the authetication method.
5. Login error pops as displayed in the above image

Expected behavior: Email OTP and TOTP should not be able to allow to use as the first step of MFA

Environment information (Please complete the following information; remove any unnecessary fields) :

• Product Version: IS 6.0.0 RC1
• OS: macOS 12.5
• Database: MySQL
• Userstore: JDBC

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[Yoshani]

Same issue exists for SMS OTP