7.5. Adding OTP tokens in the Web UI

The following section helps you to add a token to the IdM Web UI and to your software token generator.

Prerequisites

Active user account on the IdM server.
Administrator has enabled OTP for the particular user account in the IdM Web UI.
A software device generating OTP tokens, for example FreeOTP.

Procedure

Log in to the IdM Web UI with your user name and password.
To create the token in your mobile phone, open the Authentication OTP Tokens tab.
Click Add.
In the Add OTP token dialog box, leave everything unfilled and click Add.
At this stage, the IdM server creates a token with default parameters at the server and opens a page with a QR code.
Copy the QR code into your mobile phone.
Click OK to close the QR code.
Now you can generate one time passwords and log in with them to the IdM Web UI.