Two-factor authentication - how does it work?
By Paul Squires on Tuesday, 22 November 2016
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Hello,

Well... as the subject line says

Under settings - users - authentication, there is a "two-factor authentication" switch. Enabling it adds a "secret key" field to the login screen.

How does it work? There's nothing in the documentation about it... am I missing something?

Cheers,
Paul
Hi Paul,
We do not have any documentation on two-factor authentication yet.
Essentially this works similarly and in hand with Joomla's two factor authentication feature where users have the option to apply an extra layer of security where they have to generate a one-time key to login into their account.
You can refer to the two references below on how this works on Joomla:
Reference 1
Reference 2
The two plugins Google Authenticator and YubiKey is pre-installed with Joomla in your backend. EasySocial uses these plugins as well so you would need to enable it if you want to use it.
To enable two-factor authentication in EasySocial, you would need to enable the setting in Settings>Users>Authentication and also add a Joomla Two Factor custom field in Profile Types.
Then users would be able to apply two factor authentication on their own account if they want.
Raymond
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:03
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Thanks Raymond. I assumed that it would hook into Joomla's 2FA but just wanted to check.
Paul Squires
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:20
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Hello Paul,

Yes, it does actually hook into Joomla's 2factor. It's just an "interface" which we created to simulate the behavior of Joomla's built in 2factor authentication.
Mark
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:49
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