We just released privacyIDEA admin client 2.5. The admin client already provided an easy way to enroll a bunch of yubikeys by initializing them one after another. Running privacyidea -U https://your.PI.server -a admin token yubikey_mass_enroll you are able to plugin a yubikey, wait for the admin client to initilize it within […]
Cornelius Kölbel
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Today we released privacyIDEA 2.5. I18N The first important new features is, that it adds German translation to the Web UI. We are using gettext, so that it is easy to add translations to any other language. If you need other languages or if you want to translate to another language, drop […]
On August 22nd and 23rd privacyIDEA will be at FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany. You will be able to ask everything you ever wanted to know, since we will have a project stand there. In addition Cornelius will give a talk about what is hot in development. Main topics will […]
Providing sufficient information and asking the right question is half the way of getting help successfully. This is true for getting help for privacyIDEA on the mailing list, in a support contract and also with any commercial product. This is why the first question of the kind woman in the call center […]
I am really puzzled and scared by many modern “security” consultants who claim the smartphone to be the next security device or even my identification object. Knowing that the smartphone has more cores than most desktop computers, is connected faster to the internet (thanks to LTE) than most land line […]
privacyIDEA provides the possibility to verify credentials that arrive via a REST API. You can attach arbitrary applications to privacyIDEA. But this could also result in arbitrary data being sent. This is why we just pushed a new feature for the next release 2.5 of privacyIDEA. Authentication Data Mangling Just […]
Hooray. We released privacyIDEA 2.4 quite a while before the original release plan. Things went well and smooth. I already wrote about two interesting new features in privacyIDEA 2.4 – the User Management and Admin Realms. Interesting: User Management may help to ease the scenrios of smaller installations, since you […]
privacyIDEA has been able to use administrative realms for quite a while. I.e. you can define a connection to an LDAP directory, define a resolver and a realm and get all users in a security group. Then you can set this realm to have administrative rights in privacyIDEA. Thus you […]
privacyIDEA has always assumed that the authentication will be used in an existing network on top of an existing application. Looking at a corporate network or at any application like your blog software, your VPN, your local login, there are always users. Users already exist. So I guess the assumption […]
In winter 2014/15 privacyIDEA was migrated – or should I say rewritten – based on Flask. At this point it was also possible to restructure the library layer resulting in an unmangling of the old Pylons-based code. Thus it resulted in the fact, that the database layer, the library layer […]