Moodle Plugins directory: A2FA (Another 2-Factor Auth): Comments

Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 1:01 PM - cesare capobianco

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:01:49 GMT

by cesare capobianco.

Many thanks Ken. Appreciated

Tuesday, 25 April 2023, 8:33 PM - Ken Farrimond

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 12:33:52 GMT

by Ken Farrimond.

Hi Cesare - The functions of this plugin are now all covered by this other plugin which is better integrated to Moodle core https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_mfa As such the plugin is no longer supported and we see no reason to even test it on Moodle 4.1.
Ken

Tuesday, 25 April 2023, 6:25 PM - cesare capobianco

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:25:46 GMT

by cesare capobianco.

I am unclear: is this plugin definitely not working with moodle 4.1 or is it unsupported? Thanks and please excuse my poor moodle understanding

Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 12:25 AM - Martin Biermann

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:25:59 GMT

by Martin Biermann.

Dear Sam, Thanks a lot for your plugin. It saved our server until some weeks ago, when I suddenly got a problem with Apache httpd (never had this before) and had to start running my moodle under nginx. From then on I had problems, but I discovered that my Moodle too new to be supported by a2fa anyway. Anyway - Thanks a lot for your help.

Monday, 27 March 2023, 11:02 PM - Sam Battat

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:02:00 GMT

by Sam Battat.

Wow, it has been years since I first wrote this plugin, I just happened to see the latest conversation on this.

I am sorry I had to abandon this, but very happy it helped someone securing their Moodle

I will probably be retiring this since there is a more updated version

Monday, 27 March 2023, 10:51 PM - Martin Biermann

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:51:09 GMT

by Martin Biermann.

I agree. This illustrates the power in moodle. Then new plugin for multifactor authentication is a superset of auth_a2fa that has taken things to a new level. But without auth_a2fa tool_mfa probably wouldn't exist. Anyway - thanks a lot to the developers and the entire community that keeps Moodle LMS going.

Monday, 27 March 2023, 4:21 PM - Ken Farrimond

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:21:21 GMT

by Ken Farrimond.

@Martin Biermann Like many good plugins, they eventually find themselves taken into Core Moodle is some shape or form.

Monday, 27 March 2023, 4:16 PM - Martin Biermann

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:16:54 GMT

by Martin Biermann.

I used this plugin on our Moodle server until recently, but it no longer supports Moodle 4.1.x. I recommend using https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_mfa instead.
But thanks for this module! It has helped us secure our server for 5 years.

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 10:32 PM - Ken Farrimond

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:32:44 GMT

by Ken Farrimond.

Hi Everyone,
My organisation was involved in funding the last update of this plugin. I have been in touch with Jerome who did this work, but I cannot contact Sam Battat. We particularly used this to provide more secure logon for administrators on sites with open access, but we found that the interaction between multiple authentication methods in newer versions of Moodle mean that an administrator can sometime log on by a less secure method, even if they have 2 factor set up.
The functionality of this plugin has now been replaced by “Multi-factor authentication” plugin available here https://moodle.org/plugins/tool_mfa and this implementation does not have the same limitations and indeed has a lot of extra funtionality.
Thanks to Sam for originally creating this plugin and to Jerome for updating it, and to the creators of mfa for taking this further forward still.
Ken

Sunday, 12 July 2020, 6:31 PM - Scott Brim

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:31:37 GMT

by Scott Brim.

Just wondering if you plan to do an update in the near future.

Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 12:04 AM - Alessandro Pagano

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:04:59 GMT

by Alessandro Pagano.

With this plugin the Change Password in Moodle does not work. It says "A required parameter (token) was missing" . I can't enter the token in the change_password.php page. How to solve ? Thank you in advance!

Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 8:55 PM - Ahmed Gamal

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:55:57 GMT

by Ahmed Gamal.

I have a problem when trying to install the plugin
I downloaded the plugin and put it in the auth folder after that when back to my site a message appear to me that apache http server has stopped working .
if I delete the plugin everything works fine
any solution?
thanks

Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 2:56 AM - Leslie Huang

Mon, 18 May 2020 18:56:25 GMT

by Leslie Huang.

Hi Same and everyone!
It is a great plugin! I have a question: For all the existing users, instead of asking each user go into profile to generate the secret code, is there a way to generate the secret code in batch, so we can email it to each user?
Thanks.

Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 8:35 PM - Andriy Semenets

Tue, 12 May 2020 12:35:22 GMT

by Andriy Semenets.

I have tried to use this plugin on Moodle 3.8.1 but it does not working properly.
1. I followed instructions on https://github.com/hbattat/moodle-a2fa for installing and configuration.
2. Nothing displayed in user's profile field https://www.screencast.com/t/kSelyGPWKEku
3. Login page looks like https://www.screencast.com/t/dRTMqnncO Token - nothing
4. On login - nothing rather than https://www.screencast.com/t/hX1iw4BTq

Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 8:24 PM - Victoria K

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:24:18 GMT

by Victoria K.

Hello, I was able to get the plugin working but I do have a question. Does anyone know how to get the login page to look like the default login page for my theme (currently using Boost)? It looks like its importing the colors from my scss template but the login is awkwardly positioned to the left rather than the default center. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.