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 […]
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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 […]
In Tübingen, Germany will be a new Linuxtag – called Tübix. It is the first time that this event is conducted. The location and the program seems to be very interesting. Cornelius will do a workshop there about installing privacyIDEA, enrolling tokens and authenticating at SSH. You should get an […]
We just released privacyIDEA 2.3. privacyIDEA is moving towards a central point to manage authentication items. This was done by adding the machine concept, SSH keys, using Yubikeys for booting LUKS and now by adding the possibility to manage certificates. privacyIDEA acts as a central control room to manage all […]
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 […]
There is a blog post (German) about adding two factor authentication to Request Tracker using privacyIDEA. Anyway, you can also see the adaption of the request tracker authentication module at github.
privacyIDEA is now also available in the Univention App Center. Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is the flexible, cost-efficient and successful successor to server solutions from Microsoft. UCS includes comprehensive Active Directory functions and an App Center to integrate and operate enterprise applications. UCS allows web-based IT management and is well […]
I published a short article about the history of strong authentication during the last 33 years – starting with Admiral James T. Kirk accessing the Genesis project data with a retina scan. Well, personally I am really not convince to use biometrics for authentication. Have you ever tried to revoke […]
Today privacyIDEA 2.2 was released. privacyIDEA introduces the new feature of OTP Offline Authentication. This is based on the concept of Machines and Applications which you can see in the github wiki. The Offline Authentication uses a new privacyIDEA PAM module to cache authentication information. In regards to the “Machines […]
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 […]