We are pleased to be able to release privacyIDEA 3.9. This release is an example of how privacyIDEA is ment to centrally manage all you authentication in one place – since successful authentication is a matter of smooth workflows.
Authentication
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Some days ago, we released the new version 2.19 of the privacyIDEA authentication system. As explained in the release notes, we worked on improving the performance of authentication requests and managed to reduce the time needed to handle one authentication request by up to 71%! If such claims make you […]
What does privacyIDEA have to do with the abolition of cash money? Usually we do no political blogging here, but this is a great case to give you a deeper understand of the idea behind privacyIDEA. Cash Money In Germany certain disoriented politicians suggest the abolition of cash money. Arguing […]
I understand there is a bit of confusion about two factor authentication with privacyIDEA for ownCloud. Comments in ownCloud blogpost and in the privacyIDEA Youtube channel indicate this. To do openess and transparancy the honour I would like to elaborate on what has happened. The empire strikes back The subdirectory authmodules in […]
A bug in the passOnNoUser policy allows authentication with an arbitrary password. Affected version: up to privacyIDEA 2.11.2 Propability: Medium Security Severity: High Technical Background The passOnNoUser policy is supposed to check if an authenticating user exists. If the user exists, normal authentication is performed. If the user does not exist in the user […]
Dmitri Pal blogged about the offline functionalities of the SSSD with RHEL 7.2. These SSSD offline functionalities is intended to increase performance to not contact the IdM server all the time. I wonder if the timeout can not only set to some seconds but also to go offline with the client. […]
Today is the Data Privacy Day. In Europe it is called Data Protection Day. Data Privacy Day This day is foremost ment to sensitize companies and users to take care when handling with private data. Especially in social media. But you can not devide your social life from your work […]
With SMS OTP a one time password is sent to a mobile phone. The user is supposed to enter this one time password in addition to his static password. This way, the authenticating party thinks to verify, that the user is in the possession of the mobile phone. This is […]
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 […]
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 […]