On Sunday February 3rd I will give a talk how you can use privacyIDEA to add enterprise grade multi factor authentication to ownCloud.

privacyIDEA is easy. And flexible. It is probably the most flexible open source multi factor authentication systems around. And some scenarios are easy. So easy that you can add enterprise grade 2FA to owncloud in under 15 minutes.

Take a look at this in Brussels.

FOSDEM is a huge and great event with lots of talks and lots of people to meat. I am looking forward to a crowded room “Ferror” on Sunday!

This year I thought of something special for the privacyIDEA booth. Many people were always wondering: “what is privacyIDEA?”

“Is it a firewall?”, “Is it a VPN?”, “Where do I need to install it?”

The network setup

So I came up with the idea of a magnetic whiteboard to setup the network just in front of their own eyes.

I built some computers with two network interfaces, capable of acting as a router.

To easily connect the computers to each other, I needed a special kind of most flexible network cable. I bought 5 meters.

The booth setup

So this year the booth looked a bit different.

Having the flipchart with magnets with little stickers on them with “privacyIDEA”, “FreeRADIUS”, “LDAP”, “MySQL”, “TokenDB”… helped a lot to explain the concept and possible setups to all interested visitors. I definitively will pull this thing again!

The workshop

Yes. I had a wood workshop in preparation for the OpenRheinRuhr. But we also had a workshop on sunday about setting up and configuring privacyIDEA.

We were able to enroll different token types to the users and add two factor authentication to our SSH login. And we also did offline OTP to authenticate to the Linux machine.