Configuring IBM MFA generic RADIUS to authenticate with IBM Security Verify
You can configure generic RADIUS to work with IBM® Security Verify. In this configuration, you use the IBM Verify Gateway for RADIUS application on a Windows server or desktop system as the gateway that connects IBM MFA for generic RADIUS to IBM Security Verify.
Overview
IBM Security Verify helps you secure user productivity with cloud-delivered Single Sign On (SSO), multifactor authentication, and identity governance. It comes with thousands of prebuilt connectors to help you quickly provide access to popular SaaS apps, and prebuilt templates to help integrate in-house apps.
You can configure IBM MFA with generic RADIUS to work with the trial version of IBM Security Verify.
- Use an existing or new IBM account to start a trial of IBM Security Verify. Your IBM account becomes the administrator account you use to create a IBM Security Verify hostname, configure an API client, and add IBM Security Verify user accounts.
- Install IBM Verify Gateway for RADIUS application on a Windows server or desktop system.
Edit the configuration file to identify both the IBM Security Verify hostname you created, the LPAR or system where IBM MFA generic RADIUS is configured, and the shared secret you want IBM Verify Gateway for RADIUS and IBM MFA generic RADIUS to use.
- Configure IBM MFA generic RADIUS on the LPAR or system to specify the hostname or IP address of the Windows system where IBM Verify Gateway for RADIUS is running.
- Configure the IBM MFA generic RADIUS user with the
IBM Security Verify user name in
TAGS(RADUSERID:CLOUD-ID)
. - When the user logs in using IBM MFA generic RADIUS, the user specifies their IBM Security Verify password.