External MFA Providers via RADIUS Integration
kron pam supports integration with third party multi factor authentication (mfa) vendors using the radius protocol in this feature, kron pam acts as a radius client, providing a vendor independent solution for organizations that prefer a centralized authentication mechanism over specific api integrations to enable this feature, the mfa provider system parameter must be set to radius configuration steps 1 navigate to administration > system configuration manager 2 set the following parameters · mfa provider radius · mfa external provider radius addresses define the radius server(s) you can specify multiple host\ port definitions separated by commas for redundancy if a port is not specified, the default 1812 is used · mfa external provider radius secret define the radius secret key ensure the "encryption" checkbox is selected when entering this value · mfa external provider radius timeout (optional) timeout of the request in millisecond default value is 3000 · mfa external provider radius retry count (optional) number of retry attempts if no response is received within the timeout period default value is 3 · mfa external provider radius proto (optional) authentication protocol type default value is "pap" · mfa external provider radius user field (optional) specify which value of the user will be used for username field in the request packet available values are "username", "phone", "email", "userprincipalname" default value is "username" · mfa external provider radius nas id (optional) this parameter is for "nas identifier" radius attribute in the request packet define when the radius server requires it · mfa external provider radius nas ip address (optional) this parameter is for "nas ip address" radius attribute in the request packet define when the radius server requires it mfa external provider radius factor (optional) set this parameter to push to utilize mfa with push notifications