Safeguard Authentication Services 5.0.2 - Upgrade Guide

Starling Two-Factor Authentication

From the Control Center, select Preferences then Starling Two-Factor Authentication to view and update configurations.

The following sections provide a comprehensive look at Starling Two-Factor Authentication.

From Preferences | Starling Two-Factor Authenticationyou can perform these actions.

• Configuring Starling to use a proxy server
• Starling Attributes: Configure LDAP attributes for use with push notifications
• Unjoining from Starling

For more details on Starling Two-Factor Authentication, see the Safeguard Authentication Services Administration Guide, One Identity Starling Integration.

One Identity Starling integration

One Identity Starling Two-Factor Authentication is a SaaS solution that provides two-factor authentication on a product enabling organizations to quickly and easily verify a user's identity. This service is provided as part of the One Identity Starling cloud platform. Joining Safeguard Authentication Services to One Identity Starling allows you to take advantage of these companion features from Starling services. For more information on Starling, see the One Identity Starling User Guide.

In order to use Starling 2FA with Safeguard Authentication Services, you must join Safeguard Authentication Services to Starling. This is done from the Preferences | Starling Two-Factor Authentication pane in the Control Center. From this pane, you can also configure Starling to use a proxy server and customize the attributes to be used in push notifications.

Help links that provide assistance with Starling are available on the dialogs displayed when setting up the Starling Join Settings or Starling Proxy Settings:

• Visit us Online displays the Starling login page where you can create a new Starling account. This help link is available on both dialogs.
• Trouble Joining displays the Starling support page with information on the requirements and process for joining with Starling. This help link is available on the Starling Two-Factor Authentication dialog.
• Trouble With Proxy displays the Starling support page with additional information on troubleshooting the proxy configuration. This help link is available on the Starling Proxy Configuration dialog.

Starling Two-Factor Authentication requirements

In order to use Starling Two-Factor Authentication with Safeguard Authentication Services, you will need the following:

• A valid license for Safeguard Authentication Services.
• A Starling Organization Admin account or a Collaborator account. For more information on Starling, see the One Identity Starling Hosted User Guide.

• An Active Directory group for Starling users.

  NOTE: All Starling users must have the following defined in order to work with Starling 2FA:

  • Valid email address
  • Valid mobile phone number in E.164 format. (that is, +<country code><area code><phone number>)
  • Be a member of this Starling group dictated by GPO.

  For more information, see Setting up Starling users.

• Safeguard Authentication Services 4.2 (or later)

The following table provides a list of supported platforms for integrating Safeguard Authentication Services with Starling Two-Factor Authentication.

Setting up Starling users

A new Group Policy Object has been added to Safeguard Authentication Services to manage the group file for Starling, which is located in /etc/opt/quest/vas/users.starling.

This file can be manually created or set using the GPO.

To enable Starling for users using the GPO

1. Open your Group Policy management system.
2. Select the applicable group policy.
3. Navigate to Computer configuration | Unix Settings | Starling.
4. Double-click users.starling.
5. Add the groups that contain the users to be enabled to use Starling 2FA.

It may take up to 90 minutes to apply this configuration change. Use vgptool apply to apply the changes quicker.