About this plugin
A lot of web sites, even well known ones (newspapers, telcos, …) adopts
WordPress as their CMS. WordPress is a great platform, however it
can happen that password leaking or guessing might lead to unauthorized
access to the platform. A potential attacker can be therefore able to
change articles, part of the web site and/or make the website unavailable,
with image and economic damages for a company or for a blogger.
This is even more true if your website is not SSL protected.
SecurePass is a SaaS service offering an easy and affordable solution
for One Time Passwords (OTP) and strong authentication in general. They
offer 5 users for free included with their standard (=basic) account, which
is more than enough for standard blogs and web sites. Companies can purchase
additional users, if needed.
More information on the section “Setup and configure SecurePass” in Other Notes.
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Setup and configure SecurePass
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Note: Use “misec2011” as promo code, it will give you an entitlement for using
SecurePass up to 10 users for 2 years free-of-charge. Without any promo code,
you will have 5 users for 20 years for free. It depends on what you need (more users or more years).
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and create a new device (basically a RADIUS client).
In the admin interface, go to the “Device” section and add a new device.
You will need to set the public IP Address of the server, a fully qualified
domain name (FQDN), and the secret password for the radius authentication.
It’s ok if your web server is behind a firewall and/or NAT, ensure that
your server has rights to send (and receive) RADIUS authentication requests,
e. UDP port 1812.
Further reading
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This plugin web site:
com/gpaterno/wp-securepass/
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SecurePass web site:
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UK on-line shop for SecurePass (they sell hardware tokens):
com/