Articles by cornelinux

• Manage two factor authentication in your serverfarm with privacyIDEA easily

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: linux, security • 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.

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

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: linux, security, centos • 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.

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• Howto add two factor authentication to OTRS with privacyIDEA

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: centos, debian, fedora, linux, mandriva, security, suse, ubuntu • 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.

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

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: apache, linux, mysql, security, ubuntu • 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.

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• Howto enroll and use a Yubikey with privacyIDEA

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 0

  Howto enroll and use a Yubikey with privacyIDEA We use the latest 0.9.1 from privacyIDEA.org.

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• How To Run LinOTP On OpenSuSE 12.3 With PostgreSQL

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: security, suse • Comments: 0

  How To Run LinOTP On OpenSuSE 12.3 With PostgreSQL This tutorial describes the installation of LinOTP on OpenSUSE 12.3 using PostgreSQL as a token database. LinOTP is a two factor authentication solution with One Time Passwords. In the following Howto we are showing how to enable SSH authentication with LinOTP.

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• How To Do Mass Enrolling Of Yubikey With LinOTP

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: security • Comments: 0

  How To Do Mass Enrolling Of Yubikey With LinOTP When it comes to two factor authentication Yubikeys are very in vogue. They are small, they have a very small footprint on your keychain and are easy to handle as they need no driver and authentication is as easy as touching a button. This howto shows, how you can use the open source LinOTP  to enroll many Yubikeys to the LinOTP server.

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• How To Secure Apache2 With LinOTP

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: apache, security, debian, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 2

  How To Secure Apache2 With LinOTP This Howto describes the way to set up two factor authentication with one time passwords for Apache2. We assume, that you have already set up your LinOTP server. You can download Debian and Ubuntu packages or you can install the system using the Python Package Index. It provides a good quick start to get the service up and running for demo purposes (check for the latest version).

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• How To Set Up OpenVPN To Authenticate With LinOTP

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: security • Comments: 2

  How To Set Up OpenVPN To Authenticate With LinOTP This howto will show you the way to set up OpenVPN to authenticate users against the LinOTP authentication backend. Thus you can bring up your VPN using two factor authentication with different kind of OTP tokens. The interesting part is, that we will also use client certificates, so that the VPN only gets established if the machine has the right client certificate and the user has the right OTP token.

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• Running LinOTP On CentOS 6.2

  Author: cornelinux • Tags: centos, security • Comments: 2

  Running LinOTP On CentOS 6.2 This howto will show how you can set up LinOTP on CentOS 6.2. LinOTP is a modular and flexible solution for two factor authentication with one time passwords. This howto uses the community packages that are available at the python package index PyPI.

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