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authenticating FMC administrator with 2-factor authentication

vaibhav.parlekar1 — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:24:20 GMT

Hi,

We are planning to implement 2-factor authentication for administrators managing the firewalls. Can we authenticate the FMC administrator with 2-factor authentication. Couldn't find any documenation or configuration examples around it.

Vaibhav

Re: authenticating FMC administrator with 2-factor authentication

vaibhav.parlekar1 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:23:26 GMT

guys,

any take on this one. is this functionality supported at all ?

Vaibhav

Re: authenticating FMC administrator with 2-factor authentication

Marvin Rhoads — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:48:50 GMT

It isn't supported directly.

I haven't tried it; but if you are authenticating to a backend RADIUS server it should be able to use 2-factor for authentication and pass the results along to the FMC.

Re: authenticating FMC administrator with 2-factor authentication

mmcdermott@netvad.com — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:31:58 GMT

Yes, TFA is supported.

We followed this article to implement:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firepower-management-center/214756-configure-duo-two-factor-authentication.html

Re: authenticating FMC administrator with 2-factor authentication

Marvin Rhoads — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:42:15 GMT

As I noted 3 years ago, FMC is simply setup for authentication to an external RADIUS server. It knows nothing about 2-factor in itself.

The Cisco technote from July 2020 confirms the same.