[Koha] Koha and 2 factor authentication

Mike D. black23 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 00:57:45 NZST 2018


Hi,
What do you think about hardware 2fa tools like Yubikey?
Btw great replacement for Google Authentificator is Authy: screen protected
by PIN, secure backup.

Bye

Mike
pá 20. 4. 2018 v 15:45 odesílatel Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net>
napsal:

> More privacy = More freedom
> More independent tools = More freedom
> Less contract agreements = More transparency for user
>
>
> El 19/04/18 a les 19:52, Kyle Hall ha escrit:
> > There seems to be some interest in adding 2 factor authentication to
> Koha.
> > We are trying to find out what would be the most practical and easiest
> way
> > to implement 2fa for Koha combined with what would be most useful for
> > libraries that would actually *use* 2fa.
> >
> > The bug report filed for it is
> > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20476
> >
> > Basically, at this point we've come up with two ideas:
> > 1) Use Auth::GoogleAuthenticator
> > 2) Use PrivacyIdea ( https://www.privacyidea.org/ )
> >
> > Implementing GoogleAuthenticator would be much simpler I think. However,
> my
> > thought is the same users that are concerned about 2fa are the same users
> > that are concerned about privacy, and may not be interested in it simply
> > because it means giving at least some data to Google.
> >
> > PrivacyIdea on the other hand would be more work for both the developer
> and
> > the system admin since it is a completely separate package that would
> > require installation and maintenance independent of Koha itself. However,
> > it is also much more powerful and can offer a myriad of 2FA options that
> > GoogleAuthenticator cannot. On the developer side, OTRS which is also
> > written in Perl has implemented and may or may not have something useful
> we
> > can crib from it (
> > https://github.com/privacyidea/privacyidea/tree/master/authmodules/OTRS
> ).
> >
> > So, what does everything think? If you want 2FA, would
> GoogleAuthenticator
> > be a reasonable solution?
> >
> > Kyle
> >
> >
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