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  • Secure Wordpress Login with Two Factor Authentication using privacyIDEA

    ubuntu Author: cornelinuxTags: , , , Comments: 2

    Wordpress is THE widely spread blogging system that is not only used for private blog sites but sometimes also as CMS for company web sites. Wordpress is very good maintened and easy to update. But as it is so widely used, it is also an intersting goal for crackers (avoiding to say hackers).  This is why today I will tell you how to secure the wordpress accounts with a second factor for OTP authentication.

  • SSH Key Management with privacyIDEA

    ubuntu Author: cornelinuxTags: , Comments: 5

    In this tutorial I will show, how you can manage your SSH keys for all your servers and different user accounts. This is important, if you have more than one SSH key and it is even more important, if you a responsible for many different users with different SSH keys.

  • How to setup Single Sign On with OTP using simpleSAMLphp and privacyIDEA

    php Author: cornelinuxTags: , , , , Comments: 3

    How to setup Single Sign On with OTP using simpleSAMLphp and privacyIDEA This howto will deal with Single Sign On to web pages. Maybe you know OpenID. Similar to Kerberos a "Ticket" is granted to the user to authenticate at other services using the ticket and not the credentials anymore. In this howto we will use SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) which is more sophisticated than the simple OpenID. SAML can be used to setup trust relations between several entities. This is why it is used between companies and organizations, why online service are using it.

  • How to setup your OTP appliance with privacyIDEA

    tux Author: cornelinuxTags: , Comments: 4

    How to setup your OTP appliance with privacyIDEA In this howto we will setup a system that can act as your own personal OTP appliance, managing all authentication devices in your network. You then may configure your services to authenticate against this machine. It is a good idea to use some virtualization mechanism. If you have some old hardware around, this is even as good.

  • Manage Yubikeys for LUKS encryption with privacyIDEA

    ubuntu Author: cornelinuxTags: , , Comments: 0

    Manage Yubikeys for LUKS encryption with privacyIDEA So today we will show, how you can manage many yubikeys for many notebooks using privacyIDEA. privacyIDEA is an authentication system for two factor authentication - usually with OTP devices. In a recent version privacyIDEA started to not only answer authentication request, but it was also enhanced to be able to define client machines and add information, which authentication device could be used for an application on a client machine.

  • Secure Wordpress Login With Two Factor Authentication Using privacyIDEA

    ubuntu Author: cornelinuxTags: , , , Comments: 0

    Secure Wordpress Login With Two Factor Authentication Using privacyIDEA Wordpress is THE widely spread blogging system that is not only used for private blog sites but sometimes also as CMS for company web sites. Wordpress is very good maintened and easy to update. But as it is so widely used, it is also an intersting goal for crackers (avoiding to say hackers).  This is why today I will tell you how to secure the wordpress accounts with a second factor for OTP authentication.

  • Manage two factor authentication in your serverfarm with privacyIDEA easily

    tux Author: cornelinuxTags: , Comments: 3

    Manage two factor authentication in your serverfarm with privacyIDEA easily In this howto I will show, how you can use a privacyIDEA installation to add two factor authentication for many of your servers in your serverfarm. privacyIDEA is a modular solution for two factor authentication especially with OTP tokens. Due to the modular structure it can be quickly and easily adapted and enhanced. E.g. adding new token types is as simple as writing a new lean python module. You do not need to modify your network for privacyIDEA, it does not write to existing databases or user stores. It only needs read access to your user stores like LDAP, Active Directory, SQL, SCIM-service or flat files. privacyIDEA supports all usual push-button-tokens, OTP cards and smartphone apps.

  • Two factor authentication with OTP using privacyIDEA and FreeRADIUS on CentOS

    centos Author: cornelinuxTags: , , Comments: 3

    Two factor authentication with OTP using privacyIDEA and FreeRADIUS on CentOS In this howto we will show, how you can set up a the two factor authentication and management system privacyIDEA on Cent OS 6.5. privacyIDEA is a system that can manage authentication devices - especially OTP tokens of any kind. We will set up the system to be served via Apache2, store the token information in a MySQL database and provide authentication via FreeRADIUS server, thus being able to add two factor authentication to all services accessible via RADIUS like SSL VPNs and pam_radius.

  • Howto add two factor authentication to OTRS with privacyIDEA

    tux Author: cornelinuxTags: , , , , , , , Comments: 0

    Howto add two factor authentication to OTRS with privacyIDEA In this howto we will show, how easy it is to add two factor authentication with OTP token to OTRS. This is done for the support agents to protect support cases and customer data against attackers and misuse. Nevertheless this can be done for the customers in the very same way.

  • How To Run privacyIDEA With Apache2 And MySQL On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    ubuntu Author: cornelinuxTags: , , , , Comments: 2

    Howto run privacyIDEA with Apache2 and MySQL On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS We use the latest 1.0dev0of privacyIDEA. It is available via the python package index or via github.