Two Factor Authentication With OpenSSH
Using Google Authenticator
# apk add google-authenticator openssh-server-pam
# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config
AuthenticationMethods publickey,keyboard-interactive ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes PermitRootLogin yes UsePAM yes
Note: This configuration does NOT allow password authentication globally
# cat /etc/pam.d/sshd #create the file if needed
account include base-account auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_nologin.so successok auth include google-authenticator
Time-based One Time Password authentication (TOTP RFC 6238)
As user root:
google-authenticator
Note: Please take note of <secret>
Do you want authentication tokens to be time-based (y/n) y https://www.google.com/<pruned> Your new secret key is: <secret> Your verification code is <pruned> Your emergency scratch codes are: <pruned> <pruned> <pruned> <pruned> <pruned> Do you want me to update your "/root/.google_authenticator" file? (y/n) y Do you want to disallow multiple uses of the same authentication token? This restricts you to one login about every 30s, but it increases your chances to notice or even prevent man-in-the-middle attacks (y/n) n By default, tokens are good for 30 seconds. In order to compensate for possible time-skew between the client and the server, we allow an extra token before and after the current time. If you experience problems with poor time synchronization, you can increase the window from its default size of +-1min (window size of 3) to about +-4min (window size of 17 acceptable tokens). Do you want to do so? (y/n) n If the computer that you are logging into isn't hardened against brute-force login attempts, you can enable rate-limiting for the authentication module. By default, this limits attackers to no more than 3 login attempts every 30s. Do you want to enable rate-limiting (y/n) n
Tip: You might want to answer differently at questions 2, 3 and 4 based on your paranoia's level and firewall settings :)
Re-run google-authenticator
for each user that needs to login via SSH. Don't forget to include .google_authenticator
files in your LBU if you're running from RAM.
Prover
Download Google Authenticator app from your App Store. Startup Google Authenticator app and enter manually your <secret> key.
Login
ssh -v root@yourbox
You should see the last lines saying:
Authenticated with partial success. debug1: Authentications that can continue: keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive Verification code:
Authenticated with partial success
means that pubkey authentication was successfull and now the verifier is asking for the verification code generated from the Google Authenticator app.