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Quick Start: Install and protect Domain Admins AuthLite Features Supported Tokens
How AuthLite uses YubiKeys
Installation
What platforms are supported? Prerequisites and Installation Linux systems MacOS machines
Configuration
Licensing AuthLite Set up User Groups
Configuring AuthLite to use your Group Pairs
Setting up the "Group for New Users"
ENFORCE 2-factor Logons
Use Group Policy to enforce 2-factor on Windows servers/workstations Secure Administrative Accounts with 2-factor Authentication Enforce 2-factor on File Shares using Access Control Lists (ACLs) Partial enforcement of a server (e.g. Exchange) with "Forced 2-factor Processes" Enforce non-Windows machines with "Forced 2-factor Computers" Enforce 2-factor logon to Office 365 with AuthLite
Windows Workstation (Endpoint) Protection
Offline Workstation logon with YubiKeys Offline Workstation logon with OATH tokens Zero-client two-factor workstation logons Workstation Safe mode operations
Remote Desktop
2FA over Remote Desktop Protocol 2FA with Remote Desktop Gateway / RemoteApp / RDWeb / RD Web Client
Replay Windows to support RDP and other re-authenticating protocols Replay Behavior setting VPN and RADIUS Configuration
Using IAS/NPS for RADIUS with AuthLite Microsoft VPN Client settings Wireless 802.1x Authentication DirectAccess and NetMotion Mobility XE Configure Watchguard SSL VPN with AuthLite
Active Directory Deployment Notes
Administer tokens
CONFIGURE Token Settings dialog SET UP New Tokens
Provisioning Tokens Administratively
YUBIKEYS: Provisioning Administratively (Soft) OATH Tokens: Set up Administratively (Hardware) OATH Token Provisioning
Self-Service Provisioning
SET UP the Self-Service Web Portal USING the Self-Service Web Portal
MANAGE Existing Tokens DELEGATE Rights to Manage Tokens RECOVERY Tokens Multiple OTP Tokens for the Same User Multiple users with the same OTP Token Password Operations
How to Log In Event Logging
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How AuthLite uses YubiKeys

YubiKeys have a variety of capabilities, and AuthLite only uses some of them.  But this may limit other things you want to do with the same YubiKey.

OTP Slots

Each YubiKey has two "configuration slots", each of which can be used for an OTP generator, a Challenge/Response secret, or a Static Password.  AuthLite normally uses both configuration slots.  This has some implications:

  • You can't use an AuthLite-programmed YubiKey for other online services that use OTP mode.  (U2F services are still fine).
  • You can't use the same YubiKey for more than AuthLite domain, because sharing the OTP secret of an event-based device between domains ruins the security.
  • If you won't ever need the YubiKey to work with cached/offline logons, you can choose to program only one slot for AuthLite, leaving the other one for something else.  But this leads to problems because triggering one OTP slot vs. the other is a matter of how quickly you press and release the contact switch.  This leads to confusion among users and the feeling that the service isn't working very reliably.

FIDO/U2F mode

At this time AuthLite does not use U2F, but the YubiKeys still support it.  Due to the nature of U2F, you can use it for as many different services as you like all at once.  U2F does not "take up" a configuration slot, and is not affected by the programming of the OTP/challenge-response slots at all.

PIV Smart card/certificate mode

AuthLite does not use the smartcard/certificate feature of YubiKeys at all, but you can still choose to use this feature for something else not related to AuthLite.  It does not "take up" a configuration slot, and is not affected by the programming of the OTP/challenge-response slots at all.

Some YubiKeys sold by AuthLite may have the smartcard feature disabled by default.  You can turn it back on in the YubiKey Programmer by changing the USB mode to 6.