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Basic Authentication
The authentication process on MOGON has changed significantly due to the security incident. Here you can find the instructions for the general procedure.
Quick Start
- Add your SSH-Keys to your ZDV Account.
- Prepare your Smartphone for 2FA.
- Contact HPC-Group
- PrivacyIdea process
- Login to MOGON
Add SSH-Key to MOGON
You will now have to submit an SSH-keys whose comment includes certain strings and formatting. In addition to your own comment, you must append the strings HPCGATE
and HPCLOGIN
, separated by comma. The first keyword (HPCGATE
) ensures that you can tunnel through our jump host hpcgate
, the other keyword (HPCLOGIN
) allows you to access the MOGON login nodes.
The keywords must be entered to the comment section of your SSH-Key with no special requirements.
To save an individual key, just copy it in the designated field click on SSH-Key speichern
.
The Generic Format
of the SSH-Keys generated byssh-keygen
is: <algorithm> <key> <comment>
No SSH-Key
In case you don't have a SSH-Key yet or having difficulty adding the comment, you can read more in this Article.Prepare your Smartphone for 2FA
Access to MOGON is now done via two-factor authentication through PrivacyIdea. The procedure with PrivacyIdea will be explained in detail later. At this point it is only relevant that you install a two-factor authentication app on your smartphone that has been approved by the HPC group.
iOS
Android
sha-512
is supported. Please also note that in this case we can not provide support if you experience problems. Contact the HPC Group
- Once you have set up your SSH-Keys and your 2FA app, please contact us via the ticket system1) and arrange a meeting with us.
- We will contact you via Skype for Business which is available to all university members or we can arrange a video chat via BigBlueButton, if Skype for Business is not available for you.
- The whole process should take no longer than 10 minutes, if your SSH-Keys are properly setup.
PrivacyIdea @MOGON
Virtual Private Network
is necessary to access https://privacyidea.zdv.uni-mainz.de. If you have not yet set up VPN on your PC, please follow these instruction from the ZDV- Have your smartphone with 2FA app installed ready.
- Browse to PrivacyIdea and get ready for the login. Browser extensions, such as uBlock, uMatrix and NoScript, probably will prevent the website from functioning properly.
- This website is only accessible within the campus network. You can reach it from outside via VPN or with a remote desktop session. Please make sure you can open the page before proceeding.
- Establish contact with the HPC Group.
- For the login you need your
username
and theregistration key
. Theregistration key
serves as a password for the login to PrivacyIdea and is handed to you by the HPC-Admin during the identity verification process.
- After successful login, click
Token ausrollen
in the menu on the left side. - On the page
Token ausrollen
selectTOTP: Zeitbasiertes Einmalpasswort
as token. Do not changeOTP-Länge
andZeitschritt
. Fill in the fieldBeschreibung
and click onToken ausrollen
at the bottom of the page.
- Scan the QR-Code on your screen with the 2FA app of your choice on your smartphone and click on
Neuen Token ausrollen
afterwards. Do not share the QR-Code with anyone. Employees of the HPC group will never ask you for your QR-Code or other login credentials. Do not scan the QR-Code shown below!
- The newly created token is initially deactivated and must be activated by an HPC-Admin.
- Inform the HPC-Admin of the successful creation of the token, so that he can activate it. As soon as the token has been activated by the HPC-Admin, you can see the status at the
Alle Token
page. - Done. You should be able to use the 2FA app of your choice to create new TOTPs as necessary for login to MOGON.