Hi Martin,
This is something we're looking at too (no answers as yet).
One of the route's we're looking at is to use Orcid as the sign-on route, which could then go via the institutional SSO (with MFA).

The edge cases (admin accounts, API accounts) would still need a route to be able to authenticate too…

Cheers,

John

Hi all,

I have added a page for MFA on the EPrints wiki.  It really just says what I said below.  However, if anyone has extra detail to add, please update this page:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Multi-Factor_Authentication

If anyone has attempted implementing OAuth-based login for EPrints and wants to share this, then this would certainly be considered for addition to the main EPrints 3.4. codebase, if you are happy for this to be added. Either way, if you have any helpful advice on using OAuth-based user authentication with EPrints (especially if it includes MFA support) then creating a page (probably called OAuth) for this on the wiki that would be really useful.

Regards

David Newman

Hi Martin,

The way that most repositories do this is to use institutional single sign on (SSO) that will now normally have MFA baked in.  EPrints integrates with this using Shibboleth where it acts as a Service Provider:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Shibboleth

There are no plans to implement MFA directly into EPrints, as there are existing implementations that could be integrated into EPrints on a case-by-case basis.  If you do not have institutional SSO that allows you to configure EPrints as a Shibboleth Service Provider, then an OAuth implementation may be possible.  As I have not needed this, I have not had reason to implement it.  I don't know if anyone else has tried implementing an OAuth user authentication implementation for EPrints.

Regards

David Newman

On 21/03/2023 10:23 am, Martin Brändle via Eprints-tech wrote:

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Dear all,

 

IT security at our institution requires that all services that provide login to user accounts implement multi-factor authentication in some way (e.g. via Azure AD and Microsoft Authenticator or another authenticator). We must check our EPrints repository, too.

 

Has anybody done this and could provide us with some hints how to do? Currently we use LDAP .

 

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Category:Authentication and sub-pages seem not to be up-to-date.

 

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

 

Martin

 

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