Today we released the ownCloud App version 2.5.1. This plugin connects ownCloud to privacyIDEA adding enterprise 2FA to your ownCloud.

privacyIDEA supports a lot of different token types to provide 2FA for the user. This can be keyfob tokens or Smartphone Apps but also authentication mechanisms that work with a challenge/response workflow like Email, SMS or U2F.

The version 2.5.1 of the privacyIDEA ownCloud app improves the challenge/response authentication when logging in to ownCloud. A user can now have several different challenge/response tokens, an Email, an SMS and/or a U2F device. The privacyIDEA ownCloud app will handle this correctly and allow the user to either authenticate with the code from an SMS or with his U2F device.

A complete changelog can be found here at Github.

The privacyIDEA ownCloud app is also available via the ownCloud Marketplace.

Challenge Response

The response of the administrative triggerchallenge call is now consistent with a user triggered challenge. This makes it easier for plugins to handle triggered challenges and also allow multiple challenges at a time. E.g. in the ownCloud or simpleSAMLphp plugin the user would now be able to have several challenge response tokens at the same time and login with either of them.

IE and LDAP

The Internet Explorer sometimes does not provide a usual expected-language header. So even if it looks like the IE would expect a German web site, the privacyIDEA web UI would still be displayed in English. This issue was fixed.

Last but not least, a minor change in the event handler code now avoids an additional LDAP request to the LDAP server, thus speeding up the responses and decreasing the load on the LDAP server.

A complete changelog can be found here.

Update

privacyIDEA can be updated from the usual sources like the launchpad repository or the Python package index.