This blog will show how you can use privacyIDEA to secure your SSH login. In this case users need to provide an SSH Key and in addition an OTP token and an optional password. Thus you have the following authentication factors: SSH Key (soft possession factor – copyable!) optional passphrase on […]
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Attention: This HowTo is outdated! There is an improved HowTo included in the privacyIDEA documentation This Howto describes the setup of privacyIDEA on CentOS 7 including a FreeRADIUS 3 configuration. This Howto is provided by Patrick Hirschbühl. Thanks a lot for this contribution! privacyIDEA + MySQL on CentOS 7 Minimal […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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…
A new howto is available at howtoforge. It shows how you can setup a privacyIDEA system on CentOS 6.5 in conjunction with the FreeRADIUS. Thus being able to have one central authentication system and connect many applications to this system via the RADIUS protocol.
Today privacyIDEA 1.1 was released. You can get it at pypi or github tag v1.1. The changes are in documentation and usability to make it easier for you to get started: Added documentation and UI-context-help. In many dialogs we added a small question-mark icon that will take you directly to […]