Configure your Starling 2FA account for SPS
Configure SPS to use Starling Two-factor Authentication
To configure SPS to use Starling Two-factor Authentication
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Download the SPS Starling 2FA plugin
SPS customers can download the official plugin from GitHub.
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Upload the plugin to SPS
Upload the plugin to SPS. For details, see "Using a custom Authentication and Authorization plugin to authenticate on the target hosts" in the Administration Guide.
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Configure the plugin on SPS
The plugin includes a default configuration file, which is an ini-style configuration file with sections and name=value pairs. You can edit it on the Policies > AA Plugin Configurations page of the SPS web interface.
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Configure the usermapping settings if needed. SPS must find out which Starling 2FA user belongs to the username of the authenticated connection. For that, it can query your LDAP/Microsoft Active Directory server. For details, see [USERMAPPING].
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Configure other parameters of your plugin as needed for your environment. For details, see SPS Starling plugin parameter reference.
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Configure a Connection policy and test it
Configure a Connection policy on SPS. In the AA plugin field of the Connection policy, select the SPS Starling plugin you configured in the previous step, then start a session to test it. For details on how a user can perform multi-factor authentication, see Perform multi-factor authentication with the SPS Starling 2FA plugin in terminal connections and Perform multi-factor authentication with the SPS Starling 2FA plugin in Remote Desktop (RDP) connections.
SPS Starling plugin parameter reference
This section describes the available options of the SPS Starling plugin.
The plugin uses an ini-style configuration file with sections and name=value pairs. This format consists of sections, led by a [section] header and followed by name=value entries. Note that the leading whitespace is removed from values. The values can contain format strings, which refer to other values in the same section. For example, the following section would resolve the %(dir)s value to the value of the dir entry (/var in this case).
[section name]
dirname=%(dir)s/mydirectory
dir=/var
All reference expansions are done on demand. Lines beginning with # or ; are ignored and may be used to provide comments.
You can edit the configuration file from the SPS web interface. The following code snippet is a sample configuration file.
[starling]
timeout=60
rest_poll_interval=1
[starling_auto_provision]
email_attribute=<LDAP-attribute-of-user-email-address>
phone_attribute=<LDAP-attribute-of-user-phone-number>
[auth]
prompt=Press Enter for push notification or type one-time password:
disable_echo=no
[connection_limit by=client_ip_gateway_user]
limit=0
[authentication_cache]
hard_timeout=90
soft_timeout=15
reuse_limit=0
######[WHITELIST]######
[whitelist source=user_list]
name=<name-of-user-list-policy>
[whitelist source=ldap_server_group]
allow=no_user
except=<group-1>,<group-2>
######[USERMAPPING]######
[usermapping source=explicit]
<user-name-1>=<id-1>
<user-name-2>=<id-2>
[usermapping source=ldap_server]
user_attribute=description
[username_transform]
append_domain=<domain-without-@-character>
[ldap_server]
name=<name-of-LDAP-server-policy>
[credential_store]
name=<name-of-credential-store-policy-that-hosts-sensitive-data>
[logging]
log_level=info
[https_proxy]
server=<proxy-server-name-or-ip>
port=3128
[question_1]
key=<name-of-name-value-pair>
prompt=<the-question-itself-in-text>
disable_echo=No
[question_2]...
This section contains the options related to your Starling account.
If you are using a Starling 2FA plugin, (that is, you have uploaded it to Basic Settings > Plugins and then configured it at Policies > AA Plugin Configurations) and the SPS node is joined to One Identity Starling, you do not have to specify api_key and api_url in the Starling 2FA plugin configuration. This configuration method is more secure.
[starling]
timeout=60
rest_poll_interval=1
timeout
| Type: |
integer [seconds] |
| Required: |
no |
| Default: |
60 |
Description: How long an HTTP request can take during communication with the Starling server.
rest_poll_interval
| Type: |
integer [seconds] |
| Required: |
no |
| Default: |
1 |
Description: How often the plugin checks the Starling server to see if the push notification was successful.
