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Configuring Passwordless Authentication

  • Login to the instasafe console as an admin
  • Click on AUTHENTICATION PROFILE >> Passwordless
  • Click on Add Button

  • Enter a Profile name and Select primary Auth as Hardware key and Fallback Passwordles Auth option as password.

  • Click on the Save and Add New button

  • Now the profile will list over the passwordless page

  • After the successful creation of a passwordless Profile that can be used for a single user or a User Group.
  • To assign that passwordless in the user profile click on USERS & GROUPS >> Users
  • Search for the user and select the user which will be assigned to a passwordless profile
  • Click on the Edit button

  • Click on the Authentication Profile and select the passwordless profile which was created earlier.

  • Click on the Update button to save the Authentication profile of the User as passwordless.

  • To assign that passwordless in the UserGroup profile click on USERS & GROUPS >> Users
  • Search for UserGroup and select the UserGroup which will assign to a passwordless profile.
  • Click on the Edit button

  • Click on the Authentication Profile and select the passwordless profile which was created earlier.
  • Click on the Update button to save the Authentication profile of UserGroup as passwordless which will apply to all the members of the group as passwordless authentication

  • Login to the instance console with the user which enabled passwordless Authentication
  • Click on the profile icon. Then click on the MFA option

  • Now click on the Resister key under FIDO Keys

  • For Windows hello option will display user can choose either the hello option or the Hardware key by clicking on the use another device option

After verifying/adding the hello it will save and allow the user to login via passwordless

  • After the successful registration of the hardware key, Hardware key registered successfully message will display

Console Login Through The Passwordless Hardware Key

  • After successfully registering the hardware key, when the User logs in Next time, it will directly ask for the Hardware key instead of the password

  • The user will log in to instasafe after verification of the Hardware Key

Configuring Passwordless Authentication with Digital Certificate

  • Login to the instasafe console as an admin credential
  • Click on AUTHENTICATION PROFILE >> Passwordless
  • Now click on Add Button

  • Enter a Profile name and Select primary Auth as Digital Certificate and Fallback Auth option as password
  • Now click on the Save and AddNew button

  • Now the profile will list over the Passwordless page

  • After the successful creation of a passwordless profile, it can be used for a single user or a User Group.
  • To assign that passwordless in the user profile, click on USERS & GROUPS >> Users
  • Search for the user and select the user which will be assigned to a passwordless profile
  • Now click on the Edit button

  • Now choose the passwordless profile with a digital certificate.

Installation Process of Digital Certificate

  • Login to the instasafe console with the user for which the passwordless digital certificate authentication is configured.

  • Enter the password and click on sign in

  • After Successful login Navigate to the Download section in the Dashboard Menu
  • Download the instasafe web agent

  • Install the web agent to set up the digital certificate

  • Enter the credential of a user for which the digital certificate is configured and click on login

  • After the Successful installation of the agent installation, a success message will appear
  • Then click on the ok button of the pop-up message

Instasafe Agent access with Digital certificate

  • After the agent is installed, the digital certificate will be installed on the computer.
  • Enter the URL in the browser
  • A certificate prompt will open for Digital certificate passwordless authentication click on ok

  • After clicking on the ok, the login page will appear.

  • Now enter your username and click on sign in.

  • The user will be directly redirected to the dashboard page without asking for any password

Instasafe Agent access with Digital certificate

  • After the installation of the agent when the user tries to log in next time Then the certificate will appear
  • Select the certificate and click on ok for passwordless digital certificate-based login

  • Now enter the username which is configured for passwordless and click on sign in

  • After sign-in, the user will connect to the agent successfully without asking for the Password

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