topic Re: 2FA for vCloud Director in VMware vCloud Director Discussions

2FA for vCloud Director

snejk — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 06:56:20 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone have expirience with securing vCloud Director login page for tenants with 2 factor authentication? Is there any 3rd party solution which "just works" or is there any other method of implementing 2FA with vCloud Director? I've searched google and didn't find much about this topic.

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

KenNalbone — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:03:23 GMT

Did you ever find a solution to give your tenants 2fa? My searching has mostly come up empty. No 2fa providers specifically mention vCloud Director.

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

mjha — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 04:08:06 GMT

I will check this out with Our vCD development team and will get back to you soon with Answers

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

red_davelee — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:25:56 GMT

Hi Snejk

You can setup vCloud Director to use a SAML provider for authentication on a per-tenant basis. I've set it up for Safenet's Secure Authentication Service for one of our customers who wanted 2fa. I struggled with it initially but got it to work in the end. I believe Safenet have now included instructions for using their service with vCloud Director.

Dave

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

KenNalbone — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:38:29 GMT

Alex, anything?

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

SGenzer — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:05:16 GMT

vCloud Director tenants can configure SAML based identity federation with Active Directory. This blog contains a step by step explanation : Configure Active Directory Federation for vCloud Director Organization – Tom Fojta's Blog

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

KenNalbone — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:28:51 GMT

Not really look for just AD, but multi-factor. I see that blog post contains details about using Safenet and RSA though. So it looks like I'll need to figure out how to setup a generic SAML connection with one of those or something like DUO which may be doable.

Re: 2FA for vCloud Director

VMsentinel — Fri, 25 May 2018 16:58:31 GMT

Out of curiosity, is there any update on this?

Did you find another solution?

We are also looking into a simple way to implement a phone call/sms as a 2nd factor for vCD.

Re: 2FA per vCloud Director

Acar83 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:13:36 GMT

ok for identity provider but a trivial qrcode for native 2fa token is welcome. 80% of installations in the world would immediately be safer. Think about it seriously, it's an easy feature to make.