Setting up multi-factor authentication in PANTHEON Web 

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) or Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to PANTHEON Web only after successfully presenting more pieces of evidence (or factors) to an authentication mechanism.

Hint To see a use case on how to log in to PANTHEON Web using MFA, read the chapter Logging into PANTHEON Web using multi-factor authentication.

In this chapter, we will present a use case on how to successfully set up MFA in PANTHEON Web.

Case summary The administrator wants to set a Multi-factor authentication for all users in PANTHEON Web. They must enable MFA in Company Setting panel and set User data infromartion. They do this by following these steps. Enabling MFA Setting up phone number for MFA token

1. Enabling MFA

The person responsible opens the Company Setting by selecting  Settings | Company from the menu. 

In Security they enable the MFA by setting the vaildity of MFA Token in the MFA Token validity (hours) field. In our case they set validity to one (1) hour.

Next they set the length of the token, in our case 4, in the MFA token lenght field.

Hint The default value in MFA Token validity (hours) field is -1, which means that MFA is disabled. To enable it enter the number greater than 0. For more information, see chapter Security.

They continue by setting phone numbers for MFA Token for users.

2. Setting up phone number for MFA Token

They open the User register by selecting Settings | Users from the menu.

In the Users register, they click on a user and enter the contact infromation.

• In the field MFA SMS authentication, hey enter the user's phone number.

Warning If the MFA is enabled and the user does not have a phone number set up, then the login for that user will not be possible.