# Radius as Second Factor

Some proprietary, OTP-based second factor implementations expose a Radius server that allow an authenticating application (such as LemonLDAP::NG) to verify the validity of an OTP using the standard Radius protocol.

Tip

This page is about using Radius to connect to an external 2FA system for the second factor only. If your 2FA system works by concatenating the user’s password and their OTP (LinOTP), you should probably be using regular Radius authentication instead

After choosing the Radius second factor type, the user is prompted with a code that will be checked against the Radius server.

## Prerequisites and dependencies

This feature uses `Authen::Radius`. Before enable it, on Debian you must install it :

For CentOS/RHEL:

    yum install perl-Authen-Radius

In Debian/Ubuntu, install the library through apt command

    apt install libauthen-radius-perl

## Configuration

All parameters are configured in “General Parameters » Second factors » Mail second factor”.

- Activation: Set to `On` to activate this module, or use a specific rule to select which users may use this type of second factor

- Server hostname: The hostname of the Radius server. Since 2.17 you can specify multiple servers, separated by spaces, for failover.

- Shared secret: The secret key shared with the Radius server

- Session key containing login (Optional): When verifying the OTP code against the Radius server, use this attribute as the login and the OTP code as password. By default, the attribute designated as `whatToTrace` is used.

- Authentication timeout (Optional): Allowed time to perform authentication

- Authenticate Radius requests: Use the Message-Authenticator attribute to protect requests.

- Dictionary: radius dictionary file ex: /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary This is mandatory if you want to send extra request attributes.

- Request attributes: a list of additional Radius attributes to send with the Access Request. Key is the radius attribute name in the provided dictionary, value is a perl expression used to populate the attribute value.

- Add login validation call: If enabled, send an Access-Request to the Radius server with only the User-Name attribute and no User-Password before displaying the OTP form. This can be used by some Radius implementations to trigger the delivery of the OTP to the user.

- Authentication level (Optional): if you want to overwrite the value sent by your authentication module, you can define here the new authentication level. Example: 5

- Label (Optional): label that should be displayed to the user on the choice screen

- Logo (Optional): logo file (in static/<skin> directory)

### Vendor specific

Some configuration examples for specific vendors:

- InWebo Second Factor