privacyIDEA has started as a backend system for One Time Passwords. But as you might have noticed, it moves more and more to a system, that manages many different devices, identities and ways to authenticate a user. After the initial Fork many new authentication aspects have been added. The Yubikey […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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There is a blog post (German) about adding two factor authentication to Request Tracker using privacyIDEA. Anyway, you can also see the adaption of the request tracker authentication module at github.
privacyIDEA is now also available in the Univention App Center. Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is the flexible, cost-efficient and successful successor to server solutions from Microsoft. UCS includes comprehensive Active Directory functions and an App Center to integrate and operate enterprise applications. UCS allows web-based IT management and is well […]
I published a short article about the history of strong authentication during the last 33 years – starting with Admiral James T. Kirk accessing the Genesis project data with a retina scan. Well, personally I am really not convince to use biometrics for authentication. Have you ever tried to revoke […]
Today privacyIDEA 2.2 was released. privacyIDEA introduces the new feature of OTP Offline Authentication. This is based on the concept of Machines and Applications which you can see in the github wiki. The Offline Authentication uses a new privacyIDEA PAM module to cache authentication information. In regards to the “Machines […]
Today privacyIDEA 2.1 was released. privacyIDEA 2.1 redesigns the concept of Machine-Applications. See the github wiki for more details on this. The idea of Machine-Applications is that privacyIDEA can read machine information from existing machine stores like /etc/hosts or Active Directory (more to come on request). Then you can assign […]
privacyIDEA will be at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage on March 21st and 22nd. At the privacyIDEA stand you will be able to meet and greet. To ask all the questions you ever wanted to know. To get rid of your complaints. And to see new features in action. On Sunday March, […]
Installing privacyIDEA on Ubuntu 14.04LTS is easy as pie. Watch this video on YouTube. In short this is: add-apt-repository ppa:privacyidea/privacyidea apt-get update apt-get install privacyidea-apache2 You can also take a look at the online documentation.
Today we released privacyIDEA 2.0. privacyIDEA 2.0 is a migration and rewrite to Flask and AngularJS. The old privacyIDEA was based on the pylons web framework, which was not actively maintained for a while anymore, which also lead to some version conflicts. Using Flask now makes privacyIDEA a lightweight installation […]
The documentation was published at readthedocs.org. You can find the latest documentation for version 2.0, which was redone. But you can also find the docs for older versions, like the latest 1.5 release v1.5.1. We are happy to get all your feedback to this docs…